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BR  85  .H877  1843 
Hutton,  Matthew,  1529-1606. 
The  correspondence  of  Dr. 
Matthew  Hutton,  archbishop 


THE 


PUBLICATIONS 


SURTEES    SOCIETY 

KSTABLISIIED    IN    THE    YEAR 
M.DCCC.XXXIV. 


M.DCCC.XLIII. 


jD ^ MA TTHE JFfi    _&a^ >    HUTT  O  .N 

Bifhop  ^/■1±™±Jl/'     Durham. 


THE 

CORliESPONDENCE 

OF  /' 

/ 

DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON, 

ARCHBISHOP    OF    YORK. 
WITH  A  SELECTION  FROM  THE  LETTERS,  ETC.  OF 

SIR  TIMOTHY  HUTTON,  KNT., 

HIS  son; 

AND 

MATTHEW  HUTTON,    ESQ., 

HIS    GRANDSON. 


LONDON: 

J.  B.  NICHOLS  AND  SON,  PARLIAMENT  STREET: 
WILLIAM  PICKERING,  PICCADILLY. 

EDINBURGH: 
LAING  AND  FORBES. 


LONDON : 

l^rinifcl  li\  S.  ^  J.  I!enti,k\,  Wilson.  ;ni(l  Kiev, 

Uriiiijor  House,  Slioe  l-ane. 


A  Meeting  of  the  Council  of  the  Surtees  Society  was 
held  at  Mr.  Ward's  Office  on  the  26th  Dec.  1842,  by  ad- 
journment. 

Resolved,  That  the  publications  of  the  Society  for  1842 
be  the  Hutton  Papers  and  the  Bowes  Papers,  and  that 
Mr.  Raine  be  requested  to  edit  the  former  and  Mr.  Steven- 
son the  latter,  with  the  usual  remuneration ;  the  usual  number 
of  copies  of  each  to  be  printed. 

J.  "Ward,  Chairman. 


At  a  Meeting  of  the  Council  of  the  Surtees  Society  held 
on  the  6th  Sept.  1844, 

Resolved,  That  the  Hutton  Papers  constitute  one  of  the 
Publications  of  the  Society  for  1843. 

G.  Townsend,  Chainnan. 


PREFACE. 


This  volume  contains  such  of  the  letters  and  papers 
of  Archbishop  Hutton  (of  York)  as  have  been  pre- 
served by  his  family,  together  with  a  selection  from 
the  papers  of  Sir  Timothy  Hutton,  Knight,  his  son,  and 
Matthew  Hutton,  Esq.,  his  grandson.  Prefixed  to  these 
is  printed  a  life  of  the  first  Archbishop,  and  an  account 
of  his  descendants  down  to  the  second  Archbishop  (of 
Canterbury),  compiled  by  Dr.  Ducarel,^  who  was  at  that 
time  keeper  of  the  Library  at  Lambeth.  The  members 
of  the  Society,  and  the  public  at  large,  are  indebted 
to  Timothy  Hutton,  of  INIarske,  Esq.,  High  Sheriff  of 
the  county  of  York  in  1844,  for  an  opportunity  of 
becoming  better  acquainted  with  the  public  and  pri- 
vate history  of  a  family  of  considerable  imj^ortance ; 
and  for  the  light  which  is  here  thrown  upon  the  state 
of  the  Church,  and  upon  affairs  in  general,  during  an 
interesting  period. 

In  addition  to  Dr.  Ducarel's  Memoir,  which  is  little 
more  than  a  dry  compilation  of  facts  and  dates,  it  is 
intended    to   subjoin    to   these   prefatorial   remarks  Mr. 

'  Dr.  Ducarel's  Memoir  is  comprised  in  a  vokime  of  the  folio  size,  written  by 
an  amanuensis,  but  containing  his  own  signature  on  the  title-page.  It  was 
doubtless  compiled  at  the  request  of  the  second  Archbishop,  who  however  died 
a  few  months  before  it  was  completed  ;  and  in  consequence  it  is  dedicated  to 
John  Hutton,  Esq.,  of  Marske,  his  brother. 


viii  PREFACE. 

Surtees's  account  of  the  first  Archbishop,  extracted  from 
the  first  vokime  of  his  History  of  Durham,  in  which 
Hutton  finds  a  place  as  having  been  Bishop  of  Durham 
before  his  exaltation  to  the  metropolitan  see  of  York. 
The  lively  freshness  and  candour  of  Mr.  Surtees's  Me- 
moir, when  taken  in  connection  with  its  brevity,  entitle 
it  to  a  place  in  our  pages  ;  exhibiting,  as  it  does,  in  a 
favourable  point  of  view  the  character  of  one  who  in 
some  respects  had  apparently  been  misunderstood  by  his 
contemporaries. 

Among  the  papers  which  are  here  brought  to  light, 
before  we  proceed  to  Mr.  Surtees's  Memoir,  the  atten- 
tion of  the  reader  must  be  called  to  Nos.  CLXXIT., 
CLXXV.,  CLXXVI.,  CLXXVII.,  CLXXVIII.,  and 
CLXXTX. 

No.  CLXXII.  According  to  Sir  Cuthbert  Sharp, — 
who  is  excellent  authority  upon  such  a  subject,  having 
lately  published  a  very  interesting  account  of  the  re- 
bellion of  1569,  —  the  proclamation  before  us  differs  in 
some  important  respects  from  those  which  have  come 
under  his  inspection ;  and,  for  that  reason,  a  place  has 
been  assigned  to  it  in  our  pages.  The  Earls  do  not 
appear  to  have  had  recourse  to  the  press,  but  con- 
tented themselves  with  disseminating  their  grievances 
and  purposes  in  writing.  Many  scribes  would  there- 
fore of  necessity  be  employed,  and  alterations  would  be 
made  according  to  circumstances  and  localities.  This 
rebellion  led  to  such  mighty  changes  and  misery  in  the 
North  of  England,  that  a  document  connected  with  it, 
of  such  a  nature  as  this,  is  worthy  of  preservation. 

No.  CLXXV.  The  Queen's  visit  to  Lord  Chancellor 
Egerton,  at  Harefield,  in  160]. — Mr.  Nichols  has  printed 


PREFACE.  ix 

a  portion^  only  of  the  gay  proceedings,  under  the  name 
of  a  Lottery,  with  which  the  Queen  and  her  Court  were 
welcomed  on  the  occasion ;  and  regrets  that  "  the  MS. 
description  of  that  entertainment,  which  is  still  recol- 
lected by  a  very  respectable  Baronet,  Sir  Roger  Newdi- 
gate,  whose  ancestors  were  formerly  the  owners  of  Hare- 
field  Lodge,  still  remains  a  desideratum"^  Here  it  is, 
from  a  contemporary  copy  sent  to  the  Archbishop  by 
Lord  Burleigh,  the  Lord  President,  which  appears  to 
have  afforded  his  Grace  much  amusement,^  containing 
all  the  lost  matter,  and,  in  addition,  the  names  of  the 
Ladies  who  were  in  attendance  upon  the  Queen,  with  the 
prizes  which  they  respectively  drew.  From  the  point- 
ed character  of  the  composition,  a  conjecture  must 
be  permitted  that  Ben  Jonson  was  its  author.  The 
Egertons  in  the  succeeding  generation  had  a  Milton  for 
their  laureate,  and  Comus  perpetuates  their  love  for  the 
Muses. 

No.  CLXXVI.  This  speech,  which  is  alluded  to  by 
Howes  in  his  Appendix  to  Stowe's  Chronicle,  is  here 
for  the  first  time  printed.  A  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Bennet,  as  will  be  seen  in  the  pedigree  hereafter,  was 
married  to  the  second  son  of  Archbishop  Hutton. 

No.  CLXXVII.  Sir  Walter  Raleigh's  letter  was  first 
printed  in  Cabala  sive  Scrinia  Sacra,  p.  355.  The  con- 
temporary copy  among  the  Hutton  papers  differs  in 
many  important  respects  from  that  in  the  Cabala,  and 
bears  upon  the  face  of  it  every  proof  of  being  au- 
thentic.    If  anything  could  have  struck  terror  into  the 

^  Queen  Elizabeth's  Progresses,  vol.  iii.  anno  1601. 
^  Nichols.     Preface,  p.xix. 
*  See  his  letter,  p.  167. 


X  PREFACE. 

heart  of  such  a  villain  as  the  Earl  of  Somerset,  it  must 
have  been  an  appeal  like  this.  But  we  know  that  it 
was  made  in  vain. 

No.  CLXXVIII.  is  printed  as  a  specimen  of  the  wit 
of  a  Varier  or  Prcevaricator  in  the  University  of  Cam- 
brido-e.^  The  composition  before  us,  however,  is  but 
a  dull  performance  when  compared  with  many  of  its 
contemporaries.  Witness  the  following  extracts  from 
a  speech  upon  a  similar  occasion,  of  which  a  copy  is 
preserved  among  the  MSS.  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter 
of  Durham  [Hunter,  44,  9].  The  latter  abounds  with 
wit,  and  it  is  equally  remarkable  for  the  licence  which 
the  speaker  gives  to  his  tongue  when  addressing  his 
superiors.  The  speaker  upon  these  occasions  was  ex- 
horted "  to  be  witty,  but  modest  withall."  Our  readers 
will  judge  how  far,  in  this  instance,  the  injunction  was 
obeyed.  It  must  be  premised  that  the  speaker  was  of 
Jesus  College,  Cambridge,  and  that  on  the  preceding  day 
a  Johnian  had  made  a  similar  exhibition  for  a  medical 
degree,  with  Umbra  for  his  subject.  Time,  July,  1660, 
soon  after  the  Hestoration. 


Prolegomenon. — Heri  prodiit  Umhra,  hoc  est  homo  in  tenebris 
sive  Johannes  invisibiUs.  Prodiit,  inquam,  umbra,  cum  suis 
obscuris  jocls ;  hoc  est,  Fauxius  cum  sua  nigra  lanterna  ;  imo  et 
illo   obscurior,  nam  Fauxius  statim  fuit  apprehensus,  at  credo 

hunc  hominem  vix  quisquam  vestrum  potuit  apprehendere. 

Liceat  mihi  pauca  animadvertere  in  Oratorem  Joannensem  ante 
Actum  Medicum,  Et  primo  observandum  est,  quod  ille  nihil 
fere  habuit  per   totani    ejus  orationem  nisi  salve,  salve,  salve.^ 

*  See  Peacock,  on  tlie  Statutes  of  tlie  University  of  Cambridge.  Appendix, 
p   xxvi.,  &c. 

*  The  wit  must  here  consist  in  mailing  tliesc  words  monosyllables'. 


PREFACE.  XI 

Joannensis  porcus  dixit  nos  Jesuitas  esse  Papistas.  At  cum  sus 
audet  contendere  cum  Jesuitis,  tum  certe, 

"  Suis'^  et  ipsa  Roma  viribus  ruit." 

At  quod  pessime  sonabat  in  ejus  oratione,  non  abstinuit  a 
jocis  profanis.  Visus  est  admodum  stare  pro  ecclesia,  cum 
tamen  ipse  fuit  egregius  sacrilegus.  Fuit,  inquam,  egregius 
sacrilegus,  nam  ex  ipsa  Scriptura  furatus  est  suos  jocos.  At  non 
hie  est  modus  captandi  sophistas.  Absit  a  me.  Nolo  ego  his 
actibus  captare  multitudinem  sophistarum  Joannensium.  Vos 
itaque,  sophistse  Joannenses,  si  nolitis  mihi  plaudere  nisi  hisce 
conditionibus,  vestrum  servate  spiritum  ad  jusculum  reft-igeran- 
dum.  Qua?rendum  est,  secundo,  quomodo  vos  pascam  jocis 
meis,  per  aures  an  per  os,  quoniam  tot  varii  sunt  modi  recipiendi 
jocos  l  Tu,  procurator  junior,  tu  recipis  jocos  per  aures,  at  quot 
modios  jocorum  necesse  est  me  habere  ad  implendas  prselongas 
tuas  auriculas.  Est  quidam  magister  qui  nuper  peroravit  in 
scholis  medicis  qui  non  capit  jocos  per  aures,  sed  per  auribus. 
Recte  quidem  ille  sapit  Priscianum  joer  auribus  ut  caput  ejus 
tuto  frangerent.  Vos  hiautes  Sophistoe,  imponam  jocos  meos 
in    ora    vestra,    vobis  enim    placere    solet   quicquid  in  buccam 

venerit.      Vos,  Doctores  somnolenti Vos   Oxonienses,  vos 

accipitis  jocos  ut  fures  accipiunt  pecuniam  ;  imponitis  in  loculos, 

ut,  tanquam  proprios,  Oxoniam  deferatis sed  a  vobis  recedo 

ad  Procuratores.^  Tu  bos,  tu  asine,  vos  estis  duo  fiilmina,  sed 
bruta  fulmina.  Oerte  Academia  non  potest  non  esse  salva  cum 
duos  habet  tam  egregios  propugnatores  ;  unus  enim  est  armatus 
cornibus,  alter  calcibus.  Tuta  ergo  erit  Academia  a  capite  ad 
calcem.  At  salve,  precor,  Procurator  senior  !  Ad  te  satis  lau- 
dandum  quot  verborum  plaustra  desiderantur !  Tu  es  non  solum 
hujus  Academise  sed  totius  Europse  sustentaculum.  Olim,  enim, 
Europa  insidebat  tauro,  at  taurum  te  dixi.  Tu  es  vir;  recte 
quidem  es  vir,  sed  vir  gregis ;  tu  es  Regalis,  sed  tamen  bos,  nam 
qualis  rex  talis  grex.  Sed  a  te  converto  me  ad  fratrem  tuum, 
juxta  proverbium,  si  bovem  non  possis  asinum  agas.  At  cur 
rides,  mi  avuncule  2      Unde   est   quod  tu   es   perpetuo   hilaris  ? 

^  The  reader  will  observe  the  antiquity  of  tlie  well-known  distinctive  mark  of 
a  Johnian.     This  is,  if  possible,  a  better  pun  than  Rickman's  isthmus. 

*  The  Proctors  this  year  were  Oliver  Doyley  of  King's  and  John  Gardiner  of 
Corpus. 


Xii  PREFACE. 

Dubito  certe  annon  in  te  solum  cudatur  proverbium  Asinus  ad 
lyram.  At  pvofecto  tu  non  dignus  es  qui  esses  procurator  in 
sophistarum  scholis  :  sic  enim  insurgit  quidam  sophista  contra 
Procuratorem  ;  "  Qui  dicit  te  esse  animal  dicit  verum  ;  at  qui 
dicit  te  esse  asinum  dicit  te  esse  animal ;  ergo,  qui  dicit  te  esse 
asinum  dicit  verum."  "  Concedo  totum,"  inquit  Procurator  : 
"  non  ausus  sum  negare  pro  auribus."  Videtis,  itaque,  Procura- 
tor fatetur  se  esse  asinum  per  confessionem  auricularem.  Sed 
jam  ad  qusestiones.  Qusestiones  itaque  sunt  hse,  Omnis  motus 
est  irregularis,  Quandoque  bonus  dormitat  Ilomerus.  \Here  fol- 
low many  humorous  allusions  to  the  return  of  Charles  the  Second, 
and  the  ejection  from  the  colleges  of  their  Cromwellian  intruders^ 
Sed  vela  contraham  et  spectabo  tantum  nos  academicos.  Nos 
itaque  movemur  circulariter,  Testor  vos  omnes,  tam  socios  tam 
prefectos,  jamjam  ejiciendos.  Aiunt  omnes  socios  obnoxios 
ejectos  fore  per  finem  hujus  mensis.     Clamandum  est  itaque 

"  O  mihi  post  nullos,  Jiili,  memorande  sodales  !" 

sed,  quia  nollem  cicatricem  refricare,  transibo  ad  aliam  mate- 
riam,  et  narrabo  vobis  historian! .  Quidam  magister  Collegii 
Joannensis,^  vix  tanto  muneri  idoneus,  est  ausus  nuper  stare  pro 
viro  Parliamentario  in  com.  Lancastriensi.  At  quare  auderet 
tale  facinus?  Optimo  sane  consilio.  Fuit  enim,  ut  aiunt,  apud 
nos,  prorsus  sere  alieno  obrutus.  Voluit,  itaque,  fieri  vir  Parlia- 
mentarius,  quia  viri  Parliamentarii  non  possunt  arestari.  At 
quo  sensu  tam  ingens  colossus,  qualis  est  ille,  poterit  dici  Mem- 
brum  Parliamentarium  ?  Eadem  sane  racione  qua  manus  non- 
nunquam  sumitur  pro  ingenti  exercitu.  At,  cum  tantus  erat, 
unde  est  quod  superatus  fuit  in  isthac  contentione  a  quodam 
Equite  ?  Respondeo  quia  Eques  semper  solet  superare  gigantem. 
Sed,  ut  redeam  ad  motum  circularem,  dico  vobis  quomodo  hie 
magnus  vir  jactatus  est  in  fortune  rota.  Reliquit  Cantabrigiam 
ut  a  concionatore  fieret  senator.  At,  proposito  destitutus,  redit 
iterum  Academiam,  ad  petendum  beneficium.  Ita  nempe, 
"  Si  fortuna  volet,  fies  de  rlietore  Consul  ; 
Si  volet  lisec  eadem,  fies  de  Consule  rhetor." 

^  The  Master  of  St  John's,  whom  the  Restoration  compelled  to  retire  from 
the  office  into  which  he  had  unlawfully  intruded  himself,  was  Anthony  Tuckney; 
and  the  Knight  whom  he  unsuccessfully  opposed  for  the  county  of  Lancaster 
wiis  Sir  Robert  Bindlos,  Bart. 


PREFACE,  Xiii 

At  quales  habuisset  orationes  hic  Joamiensis,  si  modo  fuisset  in 
domo  Parliameiitaria  ?  Miseras  certe.  Cum  enim  hic  nihil 
novit  nisi  Joannense  jusculum,  ibi  procul  dubio  vix  potuisset 
loqui  sine  cochleari.     Sed  redeo  tandem  ad  haec  ipsa  Comitia. 

Proeuratores  etiam  videntur  moveri  circuhiritei' ;  ultimo  enim 
anno  Procurator  senior  fuit  albus,  et  junior  niger.  At  jam  Pro- 
curator senior  est  niger,  et  junior  albus.  Plane  certe  Ludus 
Latrunculorum.  "  Rex  ater  in  albo,  Rex  albus  in  atro."  Vos 
Oxonienses,  vestrum  ingenium  movetur  circulariter ;  multis  enim 
abhinc  annis  habuistis  nihil  ingenii,  et  jam  habetis  nihil  ingenii, 

"  Sic  redit  in  nihilum  quod  fuit  ante  nihil  " 

— Circulus  est  figura  mathematica — circulum  ostendam  vobis 
mathematicum  Bedelli.  Circulus  Bedelli  mathematicus  est  ro- 
tunda patina  cibo  repleta.  Primo  itaque  imponit  manum  sinis- 
tram,  sive  lineam  tangentem  ;  tunc  manum  dextram  cum  cultro, 
sive  lineam  secantem.  Hinc  clare  demonstrat  lineam  tangentem 
et  lineam  secantem  esse  sequales,  quia  quodcumque  tangit  semper 
secare  solet, — Sed  transeo  ad  secundam  queestionem,  Quandoque 
bonus  dormitat  ffomerus.  Quandoque !  Hunc  terminum  quan- 
doque tribuam  vobis  Doctoribus.  Vos  enim  estis  quandoque  pro 
Rege,  quandoque  pro  Parliamento,  quandoque  pro  Protectore, 
quandoque  pro  Cauda,  quandoque  pro  Rege  iterum.  Certe  hoc 
quandoque  erit  vocabulum  vobis  maxime  commodum.  Licet 
enim  sit  adverbium,  potest  tamen  inflecti  per  omnia  tempora. 
Vos  Oxonienses,  vos  estis  quandoque  ingeniosi,  sed  rarissime  ac- 
cidit,  non  nisi  semel  in  centum  annis.  Joel  enim  in  vestris 
Comitiis  sunt  sicut  Ludi  Seculares,  quos  nemo  mortalium  vidit 
nee  visurus  est.  Bonus !  Ubi  inveniam  bonum  ?  Certe  non 
possum  invenire  bonum  inter  vos  omnes,  prajter  Doctores ;  et 
isti  sunt  boni.  Quare  ?  Quia  quando  bonus  dormitat  Homerus. 
At  quare  dormitatio  probat  eos  esse  bonos  ?  Nempe  "  qui  bene 
dormit,  nil  mali  cogitat."  Sed  dicam,  etiam,  quid  boni  fecerunt 
nostri  Doctores  ?  Primo,  itaque,  exstruxerunt  sibi  novam  fabri- 
cam  in  scholis  Medicorum,  in  qua  laterent ;  et  hoc  est  bonum, 
nam  "  bene  qui  latuit  bene  vixit.""  Deinde  Academia  de  Aber- 
deen in  Scotia  misit  nuper  ad  nostros  Doctores,  ut  eis  opem 
ferrent,  quod  eorum  sedes  incendio  fuere  pene  consumptne.  Doc- 
tores eis  sublevarunt,  et  hoc  fait  bonum.  Sed  qusestio  est, 
annon  male  fecerunt,  quod  non  consuluerunt  farnqsum  nostrum 


XIV  PREFACE. 

Aldermannum  de  conservando  Aberdeen.  Minime,  quidem  ; 
nam  stramen  pisorum  non  omnino  conducit  ad  extinguendum 
ignem. 

Sed  pergo  ad  sequentem  terminum  Dormitat.  Vos,  reverend! 
Doctores,  vos  quidem,  ssepe  dormitatis ;  at  vos  fore  ejectos  ex 
vestris  locis,  hoc  nunquam  somniastis.  Vos,  liiantes  Sopliistse, 
video  vos  esse  dormituros  ;  frequens  enim  hiatus  est  signum  ap- 
jn'opinquantis  somni.  At  maneatis,  quscso,  ad  finem  mere  ora- 
tionis,  et  tunc  habebitis  hcenciam  dormiendi :  licite  enim  potestis 
dormire  post  gallieinium.  Vos,  qui  estis  juxta  tempus,  nollem 
vos  dormire,  sed  potius 

"  Invigilate  viri,  tacito  nam  tempora  gressii 
Diffugiunt." 

Vos,  Jurisconsulti,  qui,  propter  egregia  facinora,  amisistis 
unam  ex  auribus  vestris,  prohibeo  vos  ne  dormiatis  "  in  utram- 
que  aurem."' 

Sed  procedo  a  Jurisconsultis  ad  proximum  terminum.  Proxi- 
mus  itaque  terminus  est  Homerus.  At  ubi  inveniam  Homerum  ? 
Aiunt  Alexandrum  magnum  numquam  potuisse  dormire  nisi 
habuit  Homerum  sub  pulvinari.  Vos,  reverendi  Doctores,  vos 
optime  quidem  dormitatis.  Videte  quseso  annon  habetis  Ho- 
merum sub  vestro  pulvinari.  Sed  Homerus  non  est  inter  Doc- 
tores. Nam  Homerus  fuit  poeta  Grsecus,  at  Doctores  nostri 
sunt  tantum  poetse  Latini,  iique  etiam  miserrimi.  At  hie  merito 
quseratur  quare  Doctores  nostri,  statim  ejiciendi,  facerent  tamen 
carmina  in  reditum  Regis  ?  Respondeo  quia  "  facit  indignatio 
vei'sum."  Vos  Oxonienses,  an  Homerus  est  inter  vos  ?  Non, 
certe  ;  nam  poeta  inter  Oxonienses  tam  rarus  est  ut  cygnus  inter 
anseres.  At  quare  tum  Oxonienses  putant  se  esse  tam  bonos 
poetas  ?  Nempe  quia  putant  omnes  eorum  anseres  esse  cygnos. 
At  quare  Oxonienses  presentabant  Regi  sua  carmina  antequam 
nos  I  Respondeo,  IIH  bene  observant  istam  regulam,  "  Qui 
pessime  canit  primus  incipiat."  At  ubi  inveniam  Homerum  ? 
Tu,  asine  ad  lyram,  tu  non  es  Homerus,  nam  Homerus  non  fuit 
lyricus  poeta.  Vos  pueri,  annon  Homeri  IHas  est  inter  vestras 
nuces  ?  Vos  feminse,  annon  Homerus  est  inter  vos,  nam  poetse 
optime  norunt  rebus  deformibus  bonum  tribuere  colorem  ?  Sed 
Homerus  nee  est  inter  sophistarum  nuces,  nee  apud  juniorem 
Procuratorem,  nee  apud  Ibeminas. — Sed    ubi,  tandem,   inveniam 


PREFACE.  XV 

Homerum  ?      Inceptores    ocreati,   qui    hue  nuper  equitastis    ad 
legendum  Grtecum,  annon  Homerus  est  inter  vos,  nam  ille  multus 
solet  esse  inter  bene-ocreatos  Grsecos  ?    At  vos  Interceptores  [sic] 
seniores,  qui  [post]  multos  annos  venistis  ad  capiendura  gradum, 
vos,  forsan,   cognostis   Homerum.       Quidam  enim  e  vobis  sunt 
adeo  grandee vi,  ut  videntur  vixisse  circa  tempora  Trojan i  belli. 
Vos,   Medici,  an  Homerus  est  [inter]  vos  ?     "  Non,"  inquiunt : 
"  fuit   inter  nos,  sed  mortuus  est."     Credo,  quidem,  si  fuit  inter 
vos,    procul   dubio  mortuus  est.      Sed  num   vos   potestis  mihi 
dicere,  quo  morbo  periit  Homerus  ?     Video  vos  non  posse  dicere. 
Ego  vobis    conjecturam  faciam.       Nostis   Homerum    plurimum 
laborasse  in  describendo  mala  Trojee  :   annon,  itaque,  est  proba- 
bile  quod  morbus  ejus  lethalis  fuit  Iliaca  passio  ?     At  forsan, 
jam  tandem  inveni  Homerum.     Annon,  itaque,  senex  iste  juxta 
horologium  est  Homerus  ? — Sed  missis   queestionibus,  nihil  jam 
restat    quam   ut    solemniter   vobis   valedicerem.       Liceat    mihi, 
itaque,  antequam  moriar,  paucis  verbis  vestrara  deprecari  iram. 
Vos,  itaque,  Doctores  purpurati,  spero  vos  non  fore  iratos  ;    ru- 
bedo  enim  in  Occidente  serenum  portendit  diem.     Vos,  Medici, 
non  estimo  vestram  iram  ;  gauderem  potius  vos  esse  iratos.     Si 
enim   cum  aliquo   irascentur  medici,  signum  est  optime  valere. 
Vos,  Oxonienses, — Tu,  Procurator  niger,  non  metuo  tuam  iram, 
non  enim  timendum  est  ne  tu  unquam  excandescas.     At  tuam 
potius  metuo  iram,  o  Procurator  junior,  quia  semper  rides ;  nam 
res  severa  est  verum  gaudium.     At  num  te  severum  dixi  ?     Turn 
certe  iterum  opponuntur,  ut  olim  in  Romano  imperio,  Severus 
\\i  (?  et)   Niger.      Vos  Bedelli,   non    metuo    vestram   iram,  sed 
stomachum  :  imo  ideo  non  metuo  iram,  quia  habetis  stomachum  : 
stomachus  enim  ostendit  vos  posse  concoquere  iram.     Sed  ad  te 
tandem    venio,     dignissime    domine     Procancellarie  !^°       Multis 
nominibus  mihi  spondeo  te  non  fore  iratum.     Primo  quia  nihil 
de    te  omnino   habui.      Deinde  quia  tu  ipse  etiam   es   egregius 
jocator.       Extruendo    enim    novam    tuam    fabricam    in    scholis 
Medicorum  plures  fecisti  jocos   quam  quisquam    in  Academia. 
Prseterea  tu   es  Prevaricator.      Videris  enim   ex  vultu  torvus 
admodum    et    severus,    cum    tamen    revera    es    clementissimus. 
Aliud  itaque  es,   aliud  videris  esse.      Es  igitur  egregius  Prwvari- 

'"  The  Vice-Chancellor  in  the   year  1659-60  was  W.  Dillingham,  Master  of 
Emmanuel  College. 


XVI  PREFACE. 

cator.  At  jam  deprecatus  sum,  uti  spero,  vestrum  omnium 
iram.  Non  eritis,  ut  opinor,  mei  inimici.  At  vos  amicos  fore, 
quos  tam  libere  tractavi,  hoc  non  sperare  audeo.  Moriar  itaque 
cum  Nerone,  quia  nee  amicura  habeo  nee  inimicum.     Dixi. 

No.  CLXXIX.  is  exhibited  as  a  not  inelegant  spe- 
cimen of  the  macaronic  poetry  which  led  to  Drunken 
Barnaby,  and  as  affording  much  amusing  information 
with  respect  to  the  city  of  York,  and  its  principal  inha- 
bitants, from  the  Archbishop  downwards. 


MEMOIR  OF  MATTHEW    HUTTON,  BISHOP 
OF  DURHAM,  1589. 

BY    MR.    SURTEES. 

On  the  9th  of  January,  1589,  Matthew  Hutton,  Dean 
of  York,  was  elected  to  the  Bishopric  of  Durham.  He 
was  confirmed  on  the  26th  of  July,  consecrated  the  next 
day,  and  had  restitution  of  the  temj^oralties  on  the  10th 
of  September  following. 

According  to  the  most  received  accounts,  Archbishop 
Hutton  was  descended  from  a  gentleman's  family  seated 
at  Priest  Hutton,  in  Lancashire.^^      In  1546  he  became 

1'  "  Ex  antiqua  Huttonorum  familia  in  Lancastriensi  Palatinatu  nobilibus 
satis  parentibus  oriundus." — Grant  of  Arms,  1  May,  1584.  I  cannot  believe 
that  such  a  herald  as  Glover  would  have  made  this  assertion  without  competent 
evidence  of  the  Archbishop's  gentle  descent.  Another  proof,  however,  of  the 
state  of  the  family  previous  to  the  Archbishop's  elevation  may  be  deduced 
from  the  circumstance  that  John  Hutton  was  one  of  the  patrons  who  presented 
the  future  prelate  to  the  rectory  of  Boxworth,  in  the  Diocese  of  Ely,  in  1561  ; 
and  that  Robert  Hutton  (ancestor  of  the  Houghton  branch)  was  a  graduate  of  the 
University  of  Cambridge  at  too  early  a  date  to  suppose  that  he  had  derived  any 
support  from  his  distinguished  relative.     After  all,  however,  it  is  probable  that 


PREFACE. 


XVll 


a  member  of  the  University  of  Cambridge,  of  what  Col- 
lege is  micertaiii ;  and  took  the  successive  degrees  of 
B.A.,  1551 ;  M.A.,  1555;  and  B.D.,  in  1562.  He  oc- 
curs Fellow  of  Trinity  in  1555.  In  1561  he  was  ap- 
pointed Chaplain  to  Archbishop  Grindal,  and  was  admitted 
Margaret  Professor  of  Divinity.      In  1562  he  succeeded 


Hutton  entered  the  world  with  very  little  either  of  patronage  or  connection  ; 
that  he  was  the  founder  of  his  own  fortunes,  and  owed  his  rise  to  strong  native 
talent,  and  the  masculine  firmness  and  independence  of  his  character. 

[Mr.  Surtees  was  under  a  mistake  in  believing  that  the  Grant  of  Arms  to 
which  he  refers  proceeded  from  Glover.  It  was  made  by  Flower,  Norroy,  and  is 
only  so  far  connected  with  Glover  as  that  a  copy  of  it  is  contained  in  the  MS.  of 
the  latter  (A.  p.  198).  Flower's  grant,  printed  below,  bears  date  1  May,  1584,  and 
assigns  the  arms  as  they  are  represented  in  the  shield  prefixed  to  Dr.  Ducarel's 
Dedication,  p.  2,  hereafter.  For  whatever  reason,  the  Archbishop  procured  a 
second  grant,  from  Dethick,  Garter,  on  the  20th  of  July  in  the  same  year,  re- 
moving one  of  the  fleurs  de  lis  from  the-iend,  and  substituting  a  cross  in  its 
stead.  See  the  grant  at  large,  p.  10,  The  family  has,  however,  regularly 
adhered  to  the  former  coat,  the  Jjend  with  its  three  fleurs  de  lis. — Ed.] 

TRANSCRIPT    FROM    GLOVEr's    MS.    A.    p.    198,    IN    THE    COLLEGE    OF    ARMS. 

Omnibus  et  singulis  hoc  scri^Jtum  visuris, 
lecturis,  vel  audituris,  Gulielmus  Flower 
armiger,  aliter  dictus  Norroy,  rex  Armorum  et 
principalis  Heraldus  partium  regni  Anglije 
orientalium  occidentalium  et  borealium  ultra 
ripam  fluvii  de  Trent,  salutem  optat  in  Do- 
mino sempiternam.  Quum  reverendus  gene- 
rosusque  vir  Matthaeus  Huttonus  sacrse  Theo- 
logise  professor  Eboracensis  ecclcsise  Cathedralis 
Decanus  dignissimus  et  constituti  a  Majestate 
Regia  in  borealibus  senatus  consiliariorum 
unus,  ex  antiqua  Huttonorum  familia  in  Lan- 
castriensi  Palatinatu  nobilibus  satis  parentibus 
oriundus,  obnixe  me  rogaverit,  ut  arma  sive 
insignia  gentilitia  quae  ex  communi  observantia 
et  usu  tam  ad  ipsum  quam  ad  liberos  suos 
transmisibilia  sunt,juxta  veram  Heraldiae  artis 

disciplinam  ei  describerem,  ne  forte  quoscunque  sui  generis  atque  cognominis 
offenderet,  vel  in  consuetam  et  receptara  artis  prsedictae  formam  inscienter  pec- 
caret  ;  Ego  quidem  ad  id  exequendum  quod  est  officii  mei  non  solum  paratus,  sed 
etiam  viro  virtute  et  eruditione  claro,  deque  Principe  et  patria  nostra  tam  bene 


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f<-i> 


XVIU  PREFACE. 

Archbisliop  Grindal  in  the  Mastership  of  Pembroke,  and 
in  the  same  year  was  appointed  Regius  Professor.  In 
1564  he  kept  the  Divinity  Act  before  Elizabeth,  during 
her  visit  at  Cambridge.  In  the  following  year  he  was 
selected  as  one  of  the  preachers  at  Whitehall  by  Arch- 
bishop Parker.  Hutton's  character  was  now  establish- 
ed as  one  of  the  soundest  scholars  and  most  eloquent 
preachers  in  the  University  ;^'    and  it  was  probably  to 

merito  gratificari  cui^iens,  avita  ac  propria  generis  sui  arma  sive  insignia  quemad- 
modum  tam  ipse  Matthseus  quam  sui  liberi  et  descendentes  ab  illis  absque  quo- 
rumcunque  prsejudicio  ad  perpetuam  illorum  memoriam  generisque  splendoris 
significantiam  rite  gestare  poterunt,  verbis  conceptis  explananda  duxi,  quibus 
etiam  in  galeae  ornamentum  quid  ulterius  pro  apice  seu  Crista  addendum  fuerat 
pro  pleniori  notitia  simul  cum  Insignibus  prsedictis  gentilitiis  in  margine 
praesentium  suis  metallis  atque  coloribus  magis  ad  vivum  delineanda,  illuminanda, 
depingendaque  curavi.  Insignia  igitur  clypei  rubea  faseem  prae  se  ferunt 
argenteam  tribus  liliorum  floribus  rubeis  eonspicuam  ex  transverse  inter  tria 
pulvinaria  argentea  globulis  angularibus  deauratis  prout  moris  est  condecoratis, 
pulchre  situatam.  Ulterius  in  galeae  condecoramentum  cui  appendit  clypeus 
pro  Crista  supereminet  quadrangularis  foniiEe  pulvinar  alteram  rubeum  con- 
similibus  globulis  in  suis  extremitatibus  ornatum,  librum  ostentans  apertum 
foliis  albis  (quibus  pro  symbolo  inscribitur  Odor  vit^)  fibulisque  deauratis 
valdfe  decorum :  Galeae  quoque  cinctura  tortuosa  rubea  simul  ac  argentea 
tanquam  corona  cireumcinctae,  appendent  mantellae  rubei  coloris,  intrinsecus 
argento  duplicatae.  Quae  quidem  Arma  sive  insignia  clypei,  una  cum  apice  seu 
Crista  galeae,  caeterisque  appendicibus  ac  ornamentis,  ego  praenominatus  Norroy 
Rex  Armorum  virtute  et  authoritate  functionis  et  officii  mei  a  Regia  Majestate 
mihi  in  hac  parte  concessae,  literisque  patentibus  sub  magno  sigillo  Anglite  com- 
munitae  praefato  Mattheo  Huttono  posterisque  suis  universis  addixi  tradidi  et 
impcrpetuum  confirmavi.  Habenda,  utenda,  gerenda,  et  ostendenda,  clypeo 
scuti,  galea,  paludamento,  sigillo,  vexillo,  aut  alio  aliquo  modo  honoris  gratia 
quibuscunque  loco  et  tempore  pro  eoruni  arbitrio ;  aliquo  impedimento,  contradic- 
tione,  aut  prohibitione  id  ut  ne  fieri  possit  non  obstante.  In  quorum  omnium 
et  singulorum  fidem  et  testimonium  ego  Norroy  Rex  Armorum  praedictus  hiis 
praesentibus  manu  mea  propria  subscripsi,  et  appensione  sigilli  officii  mei 
praedicti  hoc  meum  diploma  corroboravi.  Datum  Londini,  primo  die  Maij, 
anno  salutis  a  Christo  supra  Millesimum  quingentesimum  octuagcsimo  quarto, 
Regni  vero  serenissimae  Reginae  Elizabcthae  sexto  atque  vicesimo. 

^2  "  Buceri  judicium,  Martyris  memoriam,  vim  Calvini,  Musculi  methodum,'' 
&c. — Robinson.  "  Unus  erat  Huttonus,"  &c. — Haddon.  [See  hereafter,  p.  15, 
16. — Ed.^  See  various  other  testimonies  as  to  Hutton's  learning  and  eloquence, 
which  seem  to  have  been  generally  acknowledged,  in  Le  Neve,  82 — 84,  St/ype,&c. 


PREFACE.  XIX 


these  qualities,  which  were  seldom  di^sregartled  either 
by  Elizabeth  or  her  minister  Cecil,  that  he  owed  his 
promotion,  in  1567,  to  the  Deanery  of  York.  At  the 
same  time  he  resigned  his  Mastership  of  Pembroke,  and 
the  chair  of  Regius  Professor.  In  1568  he  also  resigned 
a  prebend  in  Winchester  Cathedral,  to  which  the  date 
of  his  admission  is  unknown. ^^  On  this  enlarged  sphere 
of  action  the  Dean  exhibited  some  qualities  which  had, 
perhaps,  not  before  had  room  to  expand  themselves. 
The  Northern  Church  had,  ever  since  the  first  esta- 
blishment of  the  Reformation,  been  torn  by  dissensions 
betwixt  the  Puritans  and  their  opponents  ;  and  Dean 
Hutton,  who  seems  to  have  leaned  in  his  judgment  to- 
wards Puritanism,  or  at  least  to  have  considered  any 
objections  to  orders'*  conferred  by  foreign  Protestant 
Churches  as  useless,  and  prejudicial  to  the  best  interests 
of  the  General  Church,  was  soon  involved  in  a  violent 
and  personal  dispute  with  Archbishop  Sandys,  who  pre- 
ferred a  charge  of  thirteen  articles  against  his  refractory 
Dean.'^     Hutton   defended  himself  with   spirit  and  in- 


[The  resignation  mentioned  above  was  of  a  stall  in  Westminster,  to  which  Hutton 
had  been  presented  by  the  Queen  on  the  7th  June,  1565.  See  p.  53,  hereafter. 
—Ed.] 

"  He  was  also  Rector  of  Boxworth,  in  the  diocese  of  Ely,  1563,  which  he  lield 
till  28  March,  1576;  and  Prebendary  of  Ely,  which  he  resigned  in  1567. 

"  The  Geneva  ordination  of  Dean  Whittingham  (of  Durham)  was  one  of  the 
chief  stumbling-blocks  in  the  way  of  staunch  Episcopalians,  who  could  not 
bear  to  see  one  of  the  highest  offices  of  the  Church  filled  by  a  man  "  made 
Minister  by  a  few  mean  men  and  lay  persons  in  a  private  house  at  Geneva  ; 
whilst  others,  and  Dean  Hutton  amongst  them,  thought,  perhaps  with  more 
reason,  that  it  was  no  time  to  deprive  a  still  scarcely  established  Church  of  the 
assistance  of  able  and  pious  Ministers  on  account  of  any  defect  in  ceremonials. 
The  subject  will  recur  under  the  Cathedral,  Dean  Wliittinghum.  [Mr.  Sur- 
tees  did  not  live  to  write  his  account  of  the  Cathedral,  here  referred  to.] 

'•'  These  articles,  which  are  much  too  tedious  and  irrelevant  for  insertion  here, 
may  be  seen  in  Strype,  together  with  the  whole  progress  of  the  quarrel ;  iii.  320 

h 


XX  PREFACE. 

dependence ;  and  at  last,  when  compelled  to  make 
public  submission  before  the  High  Commission  at  York, 
confessed  in  effect  nothing  more  than  some  very  violent 
and  unguarded  expressions.  Though  the  Archbishop 
was  honoured  with  this  formal  satisfaction,  it  does  not 
seem  that  Hutton  suffered  from  the  dispute  either  in  his 
character  or  interest ;  for,  on  the  death  of  Bishop  Barnes, 
in  1588,  he  was  promoted,  as  it  should  seem,  at  the  par- 
ticular and  urgent  request  of  Lord  Burleigh,  to  the  See 
of  Durham ;  and,  after  having  presided  there  with  suffi- 
cient honour  five  years,  was  removed,  in  1594,  on  the 
death  of  Archbishop  Piers,  to  the  Metropolitan  See  of 
York.  He  died  the  18th  of  October  [16th  Jan.]  1605, 
in  the  80th  year  of  his  age,  and  was  buried  in  the  south 


— 327.  A  few  particulars,  however,  which  seem  characteristic  of  Hutton's 
asperity  of  temper  and  independence  of  character,  shall  be  selected.  The  prin- 
cipal charges  were,  his  refusing  to  assist  the  Archbishop  in  the  government  of 
the  Province,  and  violently  and  openly  thwarting  him  in  the  High  Commission 
Court,  "  for  that  he  needed  neither  the  favour  of  the  Archbishop  nor  yet  the 
Lord  President,  and  therefore  he  would  join  with  neither  of  them."  2.  His  de- 
fence of  Whittingliam's  ordination,  which  he  declared  to  be  better  than  the 
Archbishop's.  3.  His  examination  of  the  witnesses  in  Stapleton's  business  (see 
Strype),  with  a  view  rather  to  defame  than  clear  the  Archbishop,  terrifying 
some,  trifling  with  others,  and  cavilling  at  others,  and  saying,  "  Religion  hanged 
not  on  one  man^sback."  5.  Opposing  the  Archbishop's  proceedings  against  usury 
in  the  High  Commission  Court  ;  and  on  the  sudden,  in  the  midst  of  the  business, 
standing  up,  and  with  great  stomach  uttering  these  words,  "  We  must  beware 
how  we  deal  in  this  matter  ;  for  my  part,  I  dissent  from  these  proceedings,  so 
will  clear  my  hands  of  it,  for  many  things  are  termed  usury  in  the  civil  law 
wliich  are  not  so  in  the  law  of  God."  6.  "  The  said  Dean  is  suspected  to 
practise  usury  himself  ;"  a  charge  which  Hutton  retorted  with  indignation,  and 
which  had  probably  no  other  foundation  than  his  unwillingness  to  act  in  the 
prosecutions  commenced  against  several  citizens  in  the  Commission  Court.  7 
and  8.  He  favours  Recusants  and  hath  given  several  of  them  notices  of  the  pro- 
cesses that  were  to  come  out  against  them.  The  remaining  charges  relate  to 
the  Dean's  temporal  possessions  and  spiritual  pluralities,  both  of  which  the 
Archbishop  seems  to  have  thought  larger  than  became  the  modesty  of  a  Chris- 
tian pastor. 


PREFACE.  Xxi 

aile    of  York  Cathedral.       His  monument  represents  a 
recumbent  figure  in  archiepiscopal  robes. ^"^ 

They  who  have  \yritten  least  favourably  of  Button's 
character,  allow  him  the  credit  of  strong  talent,  sound 
learning,  and  a  manly  and  persuasive  eloquence.  His 
ungovernable  violence  of  temper,  which  has  been  re- 
corded on  more  than  one  occasion,  has  given  some 
writers  room  to  impute  to  his  whole  character  a  shade  of 
sour  and  Puritanic  asperity.  Yet  the  author  of  the 
beautiful  and  pathetic  letters  in  favour  of  Lady  Mar- 
garet Neville'^  can  scarce  be  accused  of  want  of  feelino-. 

o 

It  is  not  always  easy  to  define  the  exact  bounds  betwixt 
human  virtues  and  human  frailties ;  and  if  a  strono-  con- 
sciousness of  talent,  and  a  reliance  on  his  own  powers, 
sometimes  broke  forth  into  asperity  and  violence,  Hut- 
ton's  conduct  on  other  occasions  is  equally  stamped  with 
an  honourable  independence  of  sentiment  which  was  by 


'"  [Mr,  Surtees  here  prints  the  Epitaph,  for  which  see  p.  26,  and  adds  in  a 
note,  "  On  the  surface  of  the  tomb,  beneath  the  principal  figure,  are  the  effigies 
of  three  of  the  Archbishop's  children,  who  were  probably  buried  there.  The 
middle  figure  represents  a  young  man  in  armour  ;  a  female  kneels  on  the 
right,  and  a  young  boy  on  the  left.  Arms,  the  Sees  of  York  and  Durham  im- 
paling Hutton.  See  Drake."  We  may  add  that  the  engraving  liere  referred 
to  was  presented  to  Drake  by  "  Mr.  John  Dawson  of  York,  descended  by  the 
mother's  side  (through  the  Poppleton  branch)  from  Archbishop  Hutton  ;"  and 
that  the  tomb  itself,  having  been  m-uch  injured  by  Jonathan  Martin's  fire  in 
the  year  1828,  is  now  undergoing  a  complete  restoration  at  the  expense  of 
Timothy  Hutton,  of  Clifton  Castle  and  Marske,  Esq.— Erf.] 

'^  "  A  most  distressed  maydcn,  descended  of  divers  noble  houses  in  the  me- 
mory of  man  ;  of  the  house  of  Buckingliam,  Norfolk,  Westmorland,  and  Rut- 
land ;  and  now,  behold  the  instability  of  all  human  things,  two  of  them  are 
utterly  overthrown  ;  only  one  standeth  unspotted  ;  and  she  herself,  a  poor  maid, 
condemned  to  die."  See  hereafter  under  Raby.  [See  pp.  92,  96,  97,  100, 
101,  where,  in  honour  of  the  Archbishop,  who  we  rejoice  to  say  was  not  only 
successful  in  his  application  for  mercy,  but  gained  a  pension  for  the  lady,  the 
letters  in  Strype  are  given  at  length,  together  with  the  correspondence  upon 
the  same  subject  found  among  the  Archbishop's  papers. —  Ed.] 


Xxii  PREFACE. 

no  means  general  in  his  age  or  profession.  That  Prelate 
was  no  sycophant  who  durst  preach  before  a  Court  on 
the  instability  of  kingdoms  and  the  change  of  dynasties, 
and  durst  ring  in  Elizabeth's  ear  the  funereal  knell  of 
a  successor.^®  Archbishop  Hutton  left  behind  him  a 
landed  estate  of  £500  per  annum,  which  still  remains  in 
the  possession  of  his  descendants.^^ 

'^  "  I  no  sooner  remember  this  famous  and  worthie  Prelate,  but  methinks  I 
see  him  in  the  Chappell  at  Whitehall,  Queen  Elizabeth  at  the  window  in  the 
closet,  all  the  Lords  of  Parliament  spirituall  and  temporall  about  them,  and  then 
that  I  heare  him  out  of  the  pulpit  thundering  this  text,  '  The  kingdoms  of  the 
earth  are  mine,  and  I  do  give  them  to  whom  I  will,  and  I  have  given  them  to 
Nebuchadonezer  and  his  sonne,  and  his  Sonne's  sonne.'  And  at  last,  after  a 
masterly  induction,  of  the  '  fate  of  kingdoms,  and  the  change  of  line,'  pressed 
the  necessity  of  the  Queen's  establishing  the  succession. ;  and  at  last  insinuating, 
as  far  as  he  durst,  the  neernesse  of  blood  of  our  present  soveraigne  (King  James 
I.),  he  said  plainly  that  the  expectations  and  presages  of  all  writers  went  North- 
ward, naming  without  any  circumlocution,  Scotland,  which,  said  he,  if  it  prove 
an  errour,  yet  will  it  be  found  a  learned  errour." — Harrington,  Nugse  Antiquse, 
ii .  248,  251 .  See  the  whole  passage,  and  consider  how  very  different  was  the  con- 
duct of  the  French  preacher,  who,  having  inadvertently  said  before  Lewis  XIV. 
"  we  shall  all  die,"  corrected  himself,  and  added,  "  Yes,  Sire,  we  shall  almost  all 
of  us  die."  [See  the  whole  passage  from  Harrington,  p.  28,  &c.,  hereafter. — Ed.'\ 

'^  I  neither  praise  nor  envy  an  Episcopal  fortune.  Hutton,  however,  only 
succeeded  in  that  which  most  of  his  contemporaries  tried  to  effect :  his  son  Sir 
Timothy  served  the  office  of  Sheriff  of  Yorkshire  in  1607,  and  the  family  of 
Hutton  of  Marske  have  ever  since  ranked  with  the  first  gentry  of  the  North 
Riding. 

For  several  further  particulars  of  Archbishop  Hutton,  see  Strype  ;  Lc  Neve  ; 
Fuller's  Worthies,  under  Lancashire  ;  and  Fuller's  Church  History.  The  Sup- 
plement to  Strype  contains  several  of  his  letters  to  the  Lord  Treasurer,  concern- 
ing Sherburn  Hospital,  March  1590,  p.  15.  Two  letters  to  the  same,  on  his 
translation  to  York,  Dec.  1594,  pp.  197,  198.  Letters  in  favour  of  Lady  Mar- 
garet Nevyl,  198,  199,  200,  253.  Concerning  Recusants,  218.  Begs  a  pardon 
for  Nelson,  a  Popish  priest,  now  reclaimed,  255.  Concerning  concealed  lands 
in  Rippon,  254.  Desires  the  appointment  of  a  President  of  the  North,  282. 
Begs  a  pardon  for  Dawson,  a  priest,  now  converted  ;  and  gives  an  account  of 
Recusants  within  his  Diocese.  Concerning  a  loan,  and  the  assessment  of  the 
wealthier  clergy,  320.  A  very  sensible  and  liberal  letter  concerning  the  treat- 
ment of  Sir  Robert  Carr,  of  Farniherst,  one  of  the  Scottish  hostages,  then  at 
Bishopthorpe,  25  Feb.,  1597.  Concerning  the  same,  10  Mar.,  1597,  p.  321. 
See  also,  in  Lodge's   lliustrutions,   his   letter  to  Lord   Cranbournc,   concerning 


PREFACE.  XXiii 

Recusants,  iii.  251-2,  printed  also  in  Winwood's  Memorials.  Hiitton  preached 
much,  but  published  little.  "  Commentatiunculam  emisit  de  electione  et  repro- 
batione." — Sceletos  Cantab.  Lei.  Coll.  v.  205.  Le  Neve  seriously  tells  us,  that, 
at  the  last  sermon  which  Hutton  ever  preached  in  his  Cathedral  of  York,  the 
Popish  Recusants,  who  were  obliged  to  be  present  by  Elizabeth's  order,  were  so 
obstreperous  that  they  were  forced  to  be  gagged. 

[A  long  Theological  disputation  between  Hutton  and  Haufford,  at  Cam- 
bridge, before  the  Queen,  in  1564,  is  printed  in  the  third  volume  of  the  Queen's 
Progresses,  by  Nichols.  Some  of  his  letters  are  contained  in  the  Sloane  MSS. 
in  the  British  Museum,  and  some  are  printed  among  the  Egerton  Papers  by 
the  Camden  Society.  Whitaker's  Richmondshire,  ii.  314,  &c.,  may  also  be 
consulted  for  some  pleasing  anecdotes  of  our  Prelate,  and  for  an  excellent  letter 
addressed  by  him  to  Lord  Cranbonie.  There  is  an  original  portrait  of  the  Arch- 
bishop at  Marske  ;  and  the  widow  of  the  second  Archbishop  was  in  possession  of 
another,  from  which  two  engravings  appear  to  have  been  made,  the  first  by  J. 
Perry,  in  4to,  and  the  second  for  Hutchinson's  History  of  Durham.  Hutchinson's 
Plate  is  now  in  the  possession  of  Messrs.  Nichols,  and  by  their  kindness  it  has 
been  used  on  the  present  occasion. —  Ed.} 


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OF  THE 


BUTTON     FAMILY. 


TO 

JOHN    HUTTON,    OF   MARSKE,    ESQ. 

THE    FOLLOWING    MEMOIRES 
OF    THE 

HUTTON    FAMILY 

ARE     DEDICATED     AND     INSCRIBED 

BY    HIS    MOST    OBEDIENT 

AND    MOST    HUMBLE    SERVANT, 

AND.    COLTEE    DUCAREL,  LL.D., 

Librarian  to  his  Grace  Dr.  Matthew  Hutton,  late  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 


Doctors'  Commons, 
Nov.  G,  1758. 


B    2 


THE    CONTENTS. 


PAGB 

Introduction  ........       7 

A  Synoptical  View  of  Archbishoi)  Hutton's  Father  and  Brothers    .  .12 

Section  I, 

The  Life  of  Dr.  Matthew  Hutton,  Bishop  of  Durham  and  Archbishop  of 
York       .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .14 

Section  II. 

Of  the  Hutton  Family  of  Marske    .  .  .  .  .  .33 

A  more  particular  Account  of  the  late  Dr.  Matthew  Hutton,  successively 
Bishop  of  Bangor,  Archbishop  of  York,  and  Archbishop  of  Canterbury.     40 

Section  III. 

Of  the  Hutton  Family  of  Popilton  .  .  .  .  .45 

An  Appendix  of  Letters  and  other  original  Papers,  on  which  the  foregoing 
Memoircs  are  grounded,  or  that  serve  to  prove  and  illustrate  them*  .     51 

[N.  B.  All  the  Original  Letters  mentioned  in  these  Memoires,  or  copied  in 
the  Appendix,  are  now  (1758)  in  the  possession  of  John  Hutton,  of 
Marske,  Esq.] 


*  The  letters  which  Dr.  Ducarell  embodies  in  his  text,  will  be  found  in  their 
chronological  order  among  the  numerous  documents  subjoined  to  his  Memoir, 
of  which  he  has  made  no  use.  His  proofs,  extracts  from  ])rinted  authorities, 
and  other  vouchers,  are  given  as  notes  in  the  pages  to  which  they  refer. — Ed. 


INTRODUCTION. 


Families  of  the  surname  of  Huttou  have  been  common,  and  of 
ancient  standing,  especially  in  the  northern  parts  of  England. 

For  instance,  we  find  that,  in  the  time  of  Henry  11. ,  Richard 
de  Hotun  was  witness  to  a  grant  to  Wickham  Abbey,  in  York- 
shire.^ And  the  Huttons  flourished  for  some  generations  at 
Hutton  Hall,  near  Highgate  Castle,  north  of  Penrith,  in  Cumber- 
land.^ In  the  time  of  Edward  I.,  Thomas  de  Hutton  was  Rector 
of  St.  Mary  Bishophill,  the  elder,  in  the  city  of  York.^  In  the 
reign  of  Edward  II.  or  III.,  Isabel,  daughter  and  heiress  of 
Robert  Hutton,  of  Hutton,  was  married  to  William  Wentworth, 
of  Wentworth  Woodhouse,  [ancestor  to  the  Earls  of  Straftbrd,^] 
And  to  bring  together  another  intermarriage  with  the  Went- 
worth family,  though  a  long  time  after,  viz.  in  the  reign  of  K. 
Charles  I.,  INIargaret,  eldest  daughter  of  George  Wentworth, 
brother  to  Thomas  Earl  of  Strafford,  was  married  to  Sir  Richard 
Hutton,  of  Cloldsborough,  in  Yorkshire.^  In  the  time  of  Henry 
V.  or  VI,,  William  Bellassyse  married  Cicely,  daughter  and  heir 
to  William  Hutton,  of  Butterwic.^  Thomas  Hutton  was  col- 
lated, 1  May,  1488,  to  the  Prebend  of  Brampton,  in  Lincoln 
Cathedral;  and  also  collated,  in  April  1489,  to  the  Arch- 
deaconry   of  Bedford,    from  whence    he    was    removed    to    the 

'  Monastic,  vol.  i.  p.  917.  ^  Camden's  Britannia,  vol.  ii.  col.  1023. 

3  Fr.  Drake's  History  of  York,  j).  266. 

''  Collins'  Peerage,  ed.  1735,  vol.  ii.  part  ii.  p.  601  ;  [Ibid.  ed.  1779,  vol.  iv. 
part  ii.  p.  279.]  The  words  in  brackets  in  the  text  and  in  this  note  are  added 
in  pencil. 

■'  Collins'  Peerage,  vol.  ii.  part  ii.  p.  604  ;  [Ibid.  vol.  iv.  p.  282,  ed.  1779.] 

"  Collins'  Peerage,  vol.  iii.  p.  22  ;  [vol.  v.  p.  353,  ed.  1779.] 


8  INTRODUCTION. 

Archdeaconry  of  Lincoln,  July  28,  149 4 J  And  James  Hutton 
was  instituted,  20  Feb.  1488,  to  the  Vicarage  of  St.  Olave's, 
Jewry,  at  the  presentation  of  Thomas  Hutton,  D.D.*^  Many 
other  instances  to  the  same  purpose  might  easily  be  pro- 
duced  And,   here,  we  may  venture  to  lay  it  down  for  a 

general  rule,  that  all  persons  of  the  same  surname,  though  never 
so  much  different  in  condition,  did  all  originally  spring  from  the 
same  stock. 

The  name  of  Hutton  is  formed  and  derived  from  the  two 
Saxon  words  Hou,  a  hill,  and  Tun,  a  house,  a  dwelling,  a  town, 
a  vill,  or  a  district.  This  derivation  is  so  well  grounded,  that 
the  parish  of  Hutton,  in  Essex,  was  anciently  named  Hou  only, 
as  appears  from  records,^  so  that  the  name  signifies  a  town  or 
village  on  a  hill,  of  the  same  import  as  the  names  Hilton  and 
Houghton. 

Some  ignorant  people  have  imagined  that  persons  who  took 
their  surnames  from  towns,  manors,  villages,  and  other  places, 
were  commonly  illegitimate.  But  nothing  can  be  more  false 
than  such  a  notion.  For  it  was,  on  the  contrary,  the  most  emi- 
nent persons  in  a  parish,  the  lords  of  manors,  and  the  like,  that 
were  denominated  from  the  parish,  the  chief  mansion,  the  hall,  or 
place  of  their  habitation,  as  is  undeniable  from  numberless  re- 
cords ;  and  they  generally  had  the  addition  DE,  i.  e.  of  such,  or 
such  a  place,  before  their  surnames.  For  an  abundant  proof  of 
this,  we  shall  have  recourse  only  to  one  page  of  Registr.  Honoris 
de  Richmond,  (54,)  where  we  find  Henry  de  Mersk,  Robert  de 
Mersk,  Robert  de  Heyer,  Hugo  de  Ask,  Roaldus  de  Richemond, 
Roger  de  Bretham,  &c.  Afterwards,  the  addition  DE  was 
dropped,  or  melted  in  part  of  the  surname,  as  De  Areci, 
D''Arci,  &c. 

Before  we  enter  upon  the  life  of  Archbishop  Hutton,  it  is 
proper  and  necessary  to  consider  and  refute  a  groundless,  scanda- 
lous, and  injurious  calumny  that  hath  been  raised,  not  many 
years  ago,  upon  the  memory  of  that  most  worthy  prelate.  This 
calumny  we  shall  express  in  the  words  of  the  first  author  who 
made  it  public  in  print,^°  being  as  follows  : "    "  He  was  born," 

''  Dr.  Browne  Willis's  Survey  of  the  Cathedrals,  vol.  ii.  pp.  103.  124.  153. 
'^  Newcourt's  Repertorium,  vol,  i.  p.  515. 

"  W.  Holman's   MS.  Collections.       >o  Dr.  Browne  Willis,  from  Torr's  MS. 
"  Dr.  Browne  Willis's  Survey  of  the  Cathedrals,  vol.  i.  p.  51. 


INTRODUCTION.  9 

as  Mr.  Torr  says,  "  at  Warton,  in  Lancashire,  (which  Mr.  Le 
Neve  calls  Wareton,)  and,  as  he  has  heard,  it  is  the  common 
tradition  of  that  place,  that  he  was  a  foundling  there,  and  on 
that  account,  in  his  will,  provided  for  the  erection  of  an  hospital 
and  free  school  at  Warton ;  though  other  writers,  especially 
Mr.  Le  Neve,  mention  his  being  born  at  Priest  Hutton,  in  Lan- 
cashire. .  .  ."  But  this  story  is  as  false  as  it  is  injurious.  We 
do  not  find  that  it  was  ever  mentioned  by  any  contemporaries, 
as  it  undoubtedly  would,  at  a  time  when  feuds  and  parties  ran 
high ;  when  both  Papists  and  Puritans  were  inveterate  against 
the  Protestant  clergy  and  bishops,  and  would  have  let  nothing 
slip  that  could  any  way  blacken  and  expose  them,  or  destroy 
their  credit  and  influence  with  the  nation.  But  no  such  thing 
appears  in  their  swarms  of  libels.  It  was,  therefore,  reserved  for 
the  invention  of  J.  Torr,  a  hasty  and  injudicious  collector,  who 
raked  together  everything  that  came  in  his  way,  and  composed 
in  such  a  hurry,  consequently  with  so  little  thought  and  reflec- 
tion, that  he  transcribed  1250  columns,  "  mostly  close  writ  and 
in  a  very  small  hand,"  in  less  than  a  year  and  a  half.^" 

A  clause  in  this  relation  of  Dr.  Willis"'s  requires  a  particular 
animadversion,  viz.  "  that  he  was  a  foundling  there,  and  on  that 
account,  in  his  will,  provided  for  the  erection  of  an  hospital  and 
free  school  at  Warton."  For  it  was  not  on  account  of  his  being 
a  foundling  there  that  he  provided  in  his  will  for  the  erection  o. 
an  hospital  and  free  school  at  Warton,  but  only  because  he  was 
born  there.^^  This  remark,  therefore,  of  the  Doctor's  is  a  most 
palpable  falsehood  or  mistake. 

Dr.  Fuller,  an  honest  and  plain  historian,  and  who  lived  much 
nearer  Archbishop  Hutton''s  time  than  James  Torr,  assures  us, 
that  he  was  "  descended  from  an  ancient  family  of  Hutton  Hall 
(as  he  takes  it)  in  Lancashire."^"'' 

And  we  have  an  earlier  evidence,  an  authentic  and  incontesta- 
ble proof,  of  his  legitimate  and  honourable  birth,  in  the  grant  of 
arms  to  him  by  Sir  Gilbert  Dethicke,  Garter  Principal  King  at 
Arms,  a"  1584,  wherein  he  declared  that  Dr.  Hutton  was 
descended  from  parents  sufficiently  famous  or  illustrious  in  the 

^2  See  Fr.  Drake's  preface  to  his  History  of  York,  p.  6. 
'^  As  he  expressly  declares  in  his  will,  "  which  I  do  erect  at  Warton,  where 
I  was  born." 

1'  Fuller's  Church  History,  book  x.  p.  38. 


10 


INTRODUCTION. 


county  of  Lancaster ;  and  was  related  to  the  Huttons  of  Cam- 
bridgeshire, and  others  of  that  name  in  England.'^ 


<^EiP 


'*    GRANT    OF    ARMS    TO    DR.    MATTHEW    BUTTON. 

Omnibus  Christi  fidelibus  ad  quos 
prsesentes  pervenerint  Gilbertus  De- 
thicke  Miles,  alias  Garter,  principalis 
Rex  Armorum  Anglise  et  primarius 
Officiarius  inclitissimi  Ordinis  Garterii, 
salutem.  Quamvis  in  hac  vita  variis 
fortunae  dictse  {sic  orig.)  procellis  jac- 
tantur  liomines  ant  paulatini  perpetua 
oblivione  delentur  ;  quibus  quasi  ob- 
viam  dare  non  solum  amplissimis  vitse 
immortalis  beatissimse  praemiis  (nulla 
generationum  memoria  vel  seculorum 
injuria  delendis)  spe  conservantur, 
coronantur,  liii  saltem  qui  omne 
studium  et  operam  in  fide  et  virtutis 
actione  posuerunt,  vermn  apud  mor- 
tales  excogitatissima  statuuntur  vir- 
tuosis  (tam  divinarum  quam  humana- 
rum  scientiarum  cognitione  prseditis, 
vel  reipublicse  administratione  pcrspicuis,  quam  belligerosis  pro  patria  civibus, 
forensisve  {sic  orig.)  inveteratis  militibus)  divcrsa  prsemia :  quos  honoribus, 
divitiis,  et  sumrase  nobilitatis  titulis  prse  caeteris  ornatos  et  honoratos  esse 
ubique  censentur.  Ex  quibus  inter  alia  permulta,  antiquus  ille  Armorum, 
Stemmatum,  sen  Insigniorum,  in  Parrais,  Scutis,  Clipeisque  depingendi  aut 
insculpendi  mos,  cum  rerum  et  colorum  A'arietate,  Dignitatis,  Famse,  Ho- 
noris, Stirpis,  Prosapise,  et  Virtutis  perbibent  testimonium.  Unde  alii 
etiam  eorvun  exemplis  ad  virtutis  semitas  adcisci  et  incitari  videntur.  Cum- 
que  nos  Fcsciales,  Heraldi,  seu  Reges  Armorum  nuncupati,  harum  om- 
nium Commemoratores  dignississimos  {sic  oi-ig.  leg.  dignissimi)  judicamur ; 
Ego  prsedictus  Garterus,  principalis  Rex  Armorum,  ad  hsec  rogatus,  de  praj- 
cognita  bona  fama,  virtute,  prudentia,  doctrina,  multisque  fide  dignorum  tcsti- 
moniis  instructus  et  informatus,  quod  illustris  et  vcnerandus  Mattheus  Hutton, 
Sacrse  Theologise  professor,  Eboracensis  Ecclesise  Cathedralis  Decanus,  et 
Regige  Majestatis  in  partibus  Septcntrionalibus  ibidem  a  Consiliis  regiis  diplo- 
mate  constitutus,  dc  Rcpublica  bene  meritus,  clarisque  satis  parentibus  de  Comi- 
tatu  Lancastrise  oriundus  ;  cujus  stemma,  progenies  et  prosapia  altius  repe- 
tenda,  ad  alios  sues  afiines  bujus  nominis  de  Hutton  in  Comitatu  Cantabrigise, 
et  alibi,  inter  Angligenos  assignanda,  una  cum  antiquis  liujusmodi  armorum 
insignibus  buic  nomini  de  Hutton  ab  antiquo  consuetis  et  perusitatis  ;  quemad- 
modum  in  Officio  nostro  Armorum,  Libris,  Rotulis,  et  Panchartis  Officii  nostri 
predicti    dcpicta   et    exemplificata,   rcmanere   approbamus.        Verum    cum   in 


INTRODUCTION.  11 

Let  it  further  be  observed,  that  a  foundling  is  a  child  dropt 
in  a  parish,  whose  parents  are  unknown  :  but  upon  this  as  M'ell 
as  the  foregoing  considerations.  Archbishop  Hutton  was  not  a 
foundling ;  for  his  father  is  well  known  to  have  been  Matthew 
Hutton,  of  Priest  Hutton,  within  the  parish  of  Warton,  wherein, 
as  he  says  himself  in  his  will,  he  was  born,  and  his  being  known 
to  have  had  two  brothers,  Edmund  and  Eobert,^^  to  the  latter 
of  whom  he  gave  the  first  prebend  in  the  Church  of  Durham 
that   fell   after  his  consecration,  as  well   as  the  great  living  of 

animo  habemus,  hujus  Matthsei  progenitores  et  parentes  variis  jactatos  (ut  prae- 
fertur)  fortunse  procellis,  quo  minus  Arma  propria  et  genuina  eidem  Matthseo 
assignare  possumus  ;  ut  nusquam  de  hiis  in  posterum  dubitetur,  vel  alius  quis- 
quis  impugnare  possit,  quam  simillima  et  dignitati  consentanea,  eidem  Matthaeo 
hiis  nostris  litteris  patentibus  depieta,  et  usitatissimis  verbis  quam  potuimus  ex- 
pressa,  exemplificari  curavimus  :    Viz.    in  Pamia  rubra,  super    Barram  unam 
inter  tria  pulvinaria  alba,  fibulis  deauratis,  Crueem  planam  (sequalem  dictam) 
inter  duos  Lilii  flores  rubicundos :  Hiisque  insuper  additur,  ex  gracia  speciali 
eidem  Matthseo  Hutton  et  heredibus  suis,  quod  Cassidi,  seu  Galeae  militari, 
impositse  pulvinari  rubro  quadrato,  et  fibulis  deaurato,  Codex  vel  Liber  apertus, 
foliis  albis,  fimbriisque  auratis,  syniboloque  (odor  vitse)  inscripto,  cum  tortile  et 
mantellis  albis  et  rubris  coloribus  involutis  appendicibus  auro  adornatis  ;  ut  in 
margine  magis  dilucidc  depieta  apparent.     Habendum  et  Tenendum  prsedicto 
Matthseo  Hutton,  &c.  generoso  et  heredibus  suis  de  corpore  suo  legitime  pro- 
creatis,  quibus  illi  et  illorum  singuli  ab  hiis  legitime  descendentes,  tam  in  Par- 
mis,  Clipeis,  Scutis,  Armis,  Castris,  Tentoriis,  Vexillis,  cseterisque  belli  appa- 
ratibus  ;  quam  in  Sigillis,  Annulis,  Fenestris  vitreis,  Picturis,  Sculpturis,  Monu- 
mentis  Sepulturis,  omnique  Supellectile,  modeste  ut  decet  virtutis  observantia, 
consuetis  differentiis,  secundum  consuetudinem,  uti  posse  aut  velle  permittitur. 
Denique,  ut  illi,  et  illorum  quilibet,  omnes  rei  militaris  exercitationes,  Hastilu- 
dia,  Torneamenta,  Duella,  aut  hujusmodi  belli  prseludia  ingredi  et  exercere,  ut 
virtute  militaris  disciplinse  ad  honoris  gi-adus  pervenire  valeant,  absque  moles- 
tatione  aut  perturbatione  quacunque.     Quamobrem,  ut  prsemissarum  memoria 
promulgata  permanere  reique  certitudo  apparere  possit,  quoscunque  de  hoc  illus- 
tri  et  venerando  Matthseo  Hutton  legitime  procreatos,  aut  imposterum  legitime 
descendentes,  devotionibus  et  dilcctionibus  vestris  benevole  et  gratiose  commen- 
damus,  et  ut  prehemincnciis,  privilegiis,  et  libertatibus  Nobilium  Generosorum 
hiis  in  omnibus  secundetis  et  frui  sinatis.     In  cujus  rei  testimonium  has  prsesentes 
fieri  fecimus,  manu  propria   subscripsimus,   et  sigillis  consignavimus.    Datum 
Londini  in   Collegio  Officii  Armorum,  xx°  die  Julii,  1584,  anno  regni  Augus- 
tissimse  Elizabethse,  Anglise,  Ffrancise,  et  Hibernise  Reginse,  fidei  defensatricis 
vicesimo  sexto. — Froin  Vine.  157  ;  and  Register  of  Nob  Hit  i/  and  Gentry,  vol.  i. 
p.  171,  hi  the  College  of  Arms. 

"'  See  the   Pedigree  which  we  have  prefixed  to   Dr.  Ducarell's  Memoir,  in 
which  this  mistake  is  corrected. 


12  INTRODUCTION. 

Houghton/^  are  the  plainest  and  strongest  confutation  that  can 
be  of  this  ill-contrived  fable. 

We  may  close  this  introduction,  by  remarking,  that  this  im- 
putation is  what  hath  been  common  to  our  worthy  prelate  with 
some  of  the  best  and  greatest  of  men.  For  instance,  Robert 
Grrosthead,  Bishop  of  Lincoln,  is  said  to  have  been  born  in  SuiFolk 
of  very  mean,  or  "  rather  base  parentage  :"  natalibus  obscuris,  ne 
dicam  pudendis.^^  Whereas  Mr.  Thoresby  has  made  it  appear ^^ 
that  he  was  of  the  ancient  families  of  the  Copleys,  of  Copley  and 
Batley,  in  Yorkshire,  by  the  father's  side  ;  and  of  the  knightly 
family  of  Walsingham,  in  Suftblk,  by  the  mother's.  Not  to 
dwell  upon  many  other  instances  of  the  like  nature. 

A  SYNOPTICAL  VIEW  OF  ARCHBISHOP  BUTTON'S 
FATHER  AND  BROTHERS. 

Matthew  Hutton,  of  Priest  Hutton,  com.  Lancast.  had  three  sons. 


Edmund       Dr.  Matthew  Hutton,  Robert  Hutton,  D.D.,20  RectorofHough- 

Hutton,  Bishop  of  Durliam,  and  ton-le-Spring,  and  Preb.  of  Durham, 
of  the  Archbishop   of  York,  had     married  Grace,  dau''.  of  Leonard  Pilk- 

county  of  three  wives:  1.  Catharine  ington,  D.D.,  by  which  he  had  1.  Ro- 
Lancas-  Fuhnesby;  2.  Beatrix  bert,  born  in  1597;  2.  Eleanor,  wife 
ter.  Fincham  ;      3.  Frances  of  Samson  Eubank ;  3.  Joan  ;  4.  Jane  ; 

Bowes.     He  dyed  16  Jan.     5.  Elizabeth ;   6.  Grace.     He  dyed  in 
1605-6.  1623.     Query.  Whether  Leonard  Hut- 

ton was  not  also  a  son   of  his  ?     [See 
Wood's  Ath.  Oxon.] 

"  See  Dr.  Browne  Willis's  Survey  of  the  Cathedrals,  vol.  i.  p.  266,  and 
Epitaphium   Rob.  Hutton,  olim   Academise  Cantab.   Theologiae  Professoris, 
Ecclesise  Dunclm.   prebendarii,   atque  hujus  parochiae  Haughtonensis  pastoris 
celeberrimi,  Memorise  Sacrvun  ; 

Qui  docuit  templo  morituros  viverc  vivus 
Ipse  est  qui  tumulo  conditur.     En  moritur. 
Spiritus  at  supcrimi  templa  incolit,  alma  per  orbem 
Nescia  fama  mori  spargitur.     En  oritur. 
Qui  obiit  Ano  Dni,  1623, 
Deflevit  Sa.  Hutton .«' 
See  (mortall)  here  enclos'd  a  Levit's  shrine, 
In  life,  whose  life  and  lerning  like  did  shine, 
A  perfect  pastor,  rich  and  poore  both  feeding. 
At  church  theyr  soules,  at  home  theyr  bodies  needingc  ; 
May  his  example  in  eche  Lcvite  dwell 
For  all  men's  good,  and  laud  to  God.     Farewell. 
'®  Godwin  de  prsesulibus  inter  Episc.  Lincoln  ;  and  the  English. 
'9  Thoresby's  Ducatus  Leod.  pp.  9.  106. 

-"  [See  this  mistake  corrected  in  the  general  Pedigree  of  the  Family.] 
^'  See  tlie  next  page. 


INTRODUCTION.  13 

Samuel  Hutton  was  collated,  4  Feb.  1602,  to  the  prebend  of 
Ulskelf  in  York  Cathedral.  .  .  .  Thoresby  says  he  was  a  bro- 
ther's son  of  the  Archbishop's,  which  brother  had  also  Luke  and 
Marmaduke.  Archbishop  Whitgift,  in  a  letter  of  17  Sept. 
1583,  to  Dr.  Hutton,  writes  thus  :  "  For  your  nephew,  I  will 
be  glad  to  do  the  best  I  can  as  occasion  shall  serve."  Qu. 
What  nephew  this  was. 

[A  modern  hand  has  thus  answered  this  question  in  pencil : 
"  Robert  Hutton,  Rector  ofHoughton-le-Shrne.  Robert  Hutton, 
the  son  of  Edmund  Hutton,  was  Rector  of  Houghton-le-S^ming, 
and  ancestor  of  Hutton  of  Houghton."  See,  however,  the  Pe- 
digree referred  to.] 


14 


SECTION  I. 

THE    LIFE    OF    DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON,    BISHOP    OF    DURHAM    AND 
ARCHBISHOP    OP    YORK. 


Matthew  Hutton,  the  first  learned  and  excellent  Archbishop 
of  York  of  that  name,  was  born  in  the  year  1529/  at  Priest 
Hutton,  within  the  parish  of  Warton,-  in  the  county  of  Lancas- 
ter, being  the  son  of  Matthew  Hutton  of  the  said  place.^ 

What  school  he  had  his  first  education  in  we  have  no  certain 
account ;  only  are  informed,  that  giving  early  proof  of  the 
pregnancy  of  his  parts,  and  having  the  advantage  of  a  good 
master,  he  became  an  excellent  scholar.*  In  the  year  of  Christ 
1 546,  and  of  his  age  the  1 7th,  he  was  sent  to  the  University  of 
Cambridge,  and  admitted  into  Trinity  College.^  He  took  there 
the  degree  of  Batchelor  of  Arts  in  1551,  commenced  Master  of 
Arts  in  1556,^  and  was  elected  Fellow  of  his  College  tlie  year 
following.'' 

We  have  all  the  reason  to  believe  that  he  was  educated  in 
Protestant  principles  :  however,  he  grew  so  eminent  for  his  learn- 
ing, that  in  1561,  Decemb.  15,  he  was  elected  Lady  Margaret's 
Professor ;  an  honourable  employment,  generally  conferred  upon 
persons  of  distinguished  merit,  which   he  kept   till   1568.'^     In 

'  Fuller's  Worthies  in  Lancashire,  p.  111. 

*  Priest  Hutton  is  a  hamlet  in  the  parish  of  Warton,  and  the  Archbishop 
says  in  his  will,  that  he  was  born  in  the  parish  of  Warton. 

^  See  the  Synoptical  View,  p.  12. 
■*  Thoresby's  Vicaria  Lend.  p.  138. 

^  Fuller,  as  above  ;  and  J.  Le  Neve's  Lives  of  the  Protestant  Bishops,  part 
ii.  p.  80. 

*  Le  Neve's  Lives  of  the  Protestant  Bishops,  part  ii.  p.  80,  MS.  note  ;  and 
Godwin  de  prsesulibus,  edit.  Richardsoni,  p.  711,  note  z. 

''  Fuller's  Worthies,   as  above  ;  and   T.  Baker's   Catal.   of  Lady  Margaret's 
Professors  at  Cambridge. 


THE    LIFE    OF    DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON.  15 

1562,  he  proceeded  Batchelor  of  Divinity  -.^  and  May  4,^  the 
same  year,  he  was  chosen  Master  of  Pembroke  Hall,  in  the 
room,  and  at  the  recommendation,  of  Edmund  Grindall,  Bishop 
of  London,  to  whom  he  was  chaplain,  and  also  related  ;  as  the 
learned  Dr.  Richardson  very  justly  supposes.^°  The  5th  of 
October  following,  his  Lordship  collated  him  to  the  prebend  of 
Bromesbury,  in  St.  Paul's  Cathedral.^^  On  the  5th  of  Septem- 
ber preceding,  he  had  been  appointed  Regius  Professor  of 
Divinity  in  the  University  of  Cambridge.^^  Li  1563,  he  ob- 
tained a  prebend  of  Ely.^''  And  on  the  4th  of  September,  in 
the  same  year,  was  instituted  to  the  living  of  Boxworth,  in  Cam- 
bridgeshire. He  was  presented  to  that  Rectory  by  John  Hut- 
ton,^^  undoubtedly  the  same  that  was  one  of  the  knights  for  that 
county  in  the  2nd,  3rd,  and  4th  parliaments  of  Qu.  Elizabeth :  ^^ 
who  thereby  owned,  and  provided  for  him,  as  one  of  his  relations. 
Januar.  18,  1563-4,  he  joined  with  the  other  heads  of  the 
University  in  a  letter  to  their  Chancellor,  Sir  William  Cecyll, 
Secretary  of  State,  requesting  him,  that  order  might  be  taken 
for  the  more  regular  election  of  the  Vice-Chancellor,  Proctors, 
and  Taxers.^^  Qu.  Elizabeth  coming  to  visit  the  University  of 
Cambridge  in  August  1564,  and  continuing  there  five  whole 
days,^'^  our  learned  Professor  kept  the  Divinity  Act  before  her 
Majesty ;  in  which  he  acquitted  himself  to  admiration,  and 
gained  the  greatest  reputation  that  could  be.^'^  ^^     In  the  course  of 

*  Le  Neve's  Lives,  as  above. 

'  T.  Fuller  says  it  was  May  12,  and  Bp.  Wren,  May  14;  Worthies  and  Le 
Neve,  as  above. 

"•  Edit.  Godwini  de  prsesulib.  p.  711,  note  y  ;  and  M.  Wren,  apud  Le 
Neve,  p.  81.  "  Newcourt's  Repertor.  vol.  i.  p.  119. 

'^  Fuller's  Worthies,  as  above. 

'3  Willis's  Survey  of  the  Cathedrals,  vol.  ii.  p.  383. 

'*  Registr.  Cox,  fol.  142. 

^*  See  Willis's  Notitia  Parliam.  vol.  iii.  ed.  1750,  part  ii.  p.  88,  &c. 

•«  Strype's  Life  of  Whitgift,  p.  8.         ^^  Fuller's  Hist,  of  Cambridge,  p.  137. 

'*  Le  Neve's  Lives,  p.  83  ;  Strype's  Annals,  vol.  i.  edit.  1725,  p.  447  ;  T.- 
Baker's Catal.  as  above. 

'^  For  a  more  particular  account  of  his  abilities,  and  of  the  excellent  manner 
in  which  he  acquitted  himself  on  this  occasion,  be  pleased  to  consult  the  follow- 
ing testimonies  : 

Testimonies  of  the  excellent  manner  in  which  Mr.  Hutton  acquitted  himself 
in  the  Divinity  Exercises,  whilst  the  Queen  was  at  Cambridge. 

"  Unum  illud  audeo  affirmare,  in  Huttono  nostro  Buceri  Judicium,  Martyris 


16  THE    LIFE    OF 

this  year  he  married  his  first  wife  Catharine  Fuhiietby  or 
Fuhnesby,  niece  to  Thomas  Goodrich,  Bishop  of  Ely ;  but  she 
dyed  soon  after .^"  In  1565,  he  commenced  Doctor  in  Divinity.*' 
The  7th  of  Jmie,  in  the  same  year,  he  obtained  from  Qu.  EHzabeth 
the  grant  of  a  prebend  in  the  6th  stall  in  Westminster  Abbey, 
vacant  by  the  death  of  John  Beamnont ;  and  was  installed 
Decemb.  the  22nd."^  This  preferment  was  procured  for  Dr. 
Hutton  by  the  Earl  of  Leicester,  as  appears  from  the  Earl's 
letter  to  him,  of  which  this  is  a  copy.~^ 

The  Court  being  resolved,  about  this  time,  to  have  the  sur- 
plice, and  the  rest  of  the  old  apparel,  as  it  was  called,  used  in 
the  University,  Dr.  Hutton  and  three  other  Masters  of  Colleges, 
with  J.  Whitgift,  then  Margaret  Professor,  wrote  a  letter  to 
Secretary  Cecyll,  then  Chancellor,  wherein  they  represented  the 
inconvenience  of  enjoyning  the  wearing  of  the  old  habits,  and 
compelling  all  the  members  of  the  University  to  submit  thereto. 
For  many  pious  and  learned  men  thought  them,  in  their  con- 
science, unlawful ;  and,  rather  than  comply,  would  quit  the 
University ;  which  would  be  a  great  loss  to  that  learned  body. 
And  the  forcing  of  these  things,  at  that  juncture,  would  be  a 
great  hindrance  to  the  preaching  of  the  Gospel,  and  to  all  good 
literature.  But  this  letter  was  ill  taken  ;  and  it  was  falsely 
reported,  that  Dr.  Hutton  had  written  against  the  apparel,  had 
preached  against  it  in  his  public  sermons,  and  winked  at  the 
neglect  of  it ;  and  that  he  and  the  rest  had  become  instrumental 

"  Memoriam,  Vim  Calvini,  Musculi  Methodum,  ex  hac  concertatione  liquido 
"  apparuisse.  Nemo  potuit  facere  ut  iste  nisi  Dominus  fuisset  cum  eo." — Nic. 
Robinson  postea  Episc.  Bangor. 

Dr.  Haddon,  in  a  Letter  of  his  to  Sir  Thomas  Smith,  hath  these  words  : 

"  ....  Si  Cantabrigiae  fuisses,  herbam  &  florem  vidisses.  Sed  a  maturitate 
"  adhuc  aliquantmn  absunt.  Unus  erat  Huttonus  theologormn  axiomatum  defen- 
"  sor,  qui  mihi  vehementer  satisfecit,  usque  eo,  vix  ut  aliquid  audiverim 
"  melius."— Ep.  p.  301. 

Sir  Thomas  in  his  Answer,  says,  ....  "  Gratulor  illi  Academise,  quod  talem 
"  Huttonum  habet,  qualem  describis." — Inter  Haddoni  Ep.  p.  305. 

The  questions  he  disputed  upon  were,  Major  est  Scripturfe  quam  Ecclesiae 
auctoritas  :  Civilis  Magistratus  habet  auctoritatem  in  rebus  Eeclesiasticis. — 
Strype's  Ann.  voL  i.  ed.  1725. 

*"  Fuller's  Worthies.  ^'  M.  Wren,  apud  Le  Neve,  as  above,  p.  81. 

''^  See  Widmore's  History  of  Westminster  Abbey,  Appendix,  p.  221. 

^  [See  letter,  dated  7  June,  (1565,)  hereafter.] 


DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON.  17 

in  creating  disturbances  upon  the  subject.  When  in  reahty  Dr. 
Hutton  had  writ  and  pubhshed  nothing  in  this  controversy  :  but 
only  had  spoke  a  httle  about  it  in  two  of  his  lectures,  to  repress 
the  fond  dealing  of  such  young  men,  in  framing  such  grounds 
and  arguments  against  apparel  as  they  were  not  able  to  prove."^ 

In  the  beginning  of  the  year  1566,  he  was  appointed  one  of 
the  preachers  before  the  Queen  during  the  time  of  Lent.^^  An  d 
Bishop  Grindal  nominated  him  to  preach  at  Paul's  Cross,  Octob . 
6,  and  also  November  the  third.  The  Bishop's  letter  to  him 
upon  that  occasion  shews  so  much  respect  and  esteem,  that  we 
could  not  forbear  inserting  of  it  here."'^ 

In  1567,  Dr.  Hutton  was  advanced  to  the  Deanery  of  York,^^ 
and  instaird,  April  8 ;  "^  where  upon  he  resigns,  April  1 2,  his 
Mastership  of  Pembroke  Hall,  and  Regius  Professorship,  in  both 
which  he  was  succeeded  by  Dr.  John  Whitgift.-^  He  also  re- 
signs, June  23,  his  prebend  of  Ely;^*^  and,  soon  after,  his  pre- 
bend of  Westminster;  in  which  last  he  was  succeeded,  17  Novemb. 
1567,  by  Walter  Jones.^^^-  This  year  [1567],  he  took  to  his 
second  wife  Beatrix,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Fincham  [or  Fan- 
shaw],  of  the  Isle  of  Ely.^^  Upon  the  death  of  Dr.  Thomas 
Young,  Archbishop  of  York,  in  June  1568,  that  metropolitical 
See  being  left  several  months  vacant,  and  the  Popish  agents 
growing  very  busy  in  the  northern  parts,  our  worthy  Dean 
wrote  to  Secretary  Oecyll,  to  put  him  in  mind  how  much  they 
stood  in  need  of  a  good  Archbishop ;  pointing  out  withal  what 
qualifications  he  ought  to  have,  viz.  "  that  he  should  be  a 
"  teacher,  because  the  country  was  ignorant ;    a  vertuous  and 

■'*  Sti-yjje's  Life  of  Abp.  Parker,  p.  194,  and  Appendix,  p.  69,  70.  He  there 
subscribes  his  name  Hutte/i,  if  Mr.  Stry^^e  copied  it  right, 

**  Idem,  Appendix,  p.  75. 

-^  [See  this  letter  in  its  order  of  time  hereafter.] 

'^  [Extracts,  with  respect  to  Dean  Hutton's  family,  from  the  Register  of  St. 
Michael's  le  Belfry,  York,  made  June  28,  1811,  are  here  inserted  in  the  manu- 
script ;  the  substance  of  which  is  given  in  connection  with  the  Pedigree.] 

='  Le  Neve's  Fasti,  p.  315.  ^  Fuller's  Worthies  in  Lancashire,  p.  111. 

="»  Willis's  Survey  of  the  Cathedrals,  vol.  ii.  p.  383  ;  and  W.  Richardson, 
edit.  Godwini  de  prfesulib.,  p.  71 1,  not.  a. 

^'  Widmore's  History  of  Westminster  Abbey,  Appendix,  p.  221. 

32  But  he  was  collated  to  the  prebend  of  Osbaldwick,  in  the  church  of  York, 
August  26,  1567.— Willis's  Survey,  vol.  i.  p.  157. 

**  Fuller's  Worthies  in  Lancashire,  p.  111. 

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18  THE    LIFE   OF 

"  godly  man,  because  the  country  was  given  to  sift  a  man's  life ; 
"  a  stout  and  couragious  man  in  God's  cause,  because  the  coun- 
"  try  otherwise  would  abuse  him ;  and  yet  a  sober  and  discreet 
"  man,  because  too  much  rigourousness  should  harden  the  hearts 
"  of  some,  that  by  fair  means  might  be  mollified,  &c. ;  and  such 
"  a  Bishoj),  likewise,  as  was  both  learned  himself,  and  also  loved 
"  learning,  that  that  rude  and  blind  country  might  be  furnished 
"  with  learned  preachers ;  and  such  a  man  was  the  Bishop  of 
"  London  [Bp.  Grindall]  known  to  be  ;  whom,  therefore,  he 
"  Avished  to  have  translated  to  York."  Perhaps  he  might  give 
a  hint  for  himself. 

After  the  Archbishopric  of  York  had  been  kept  vacant  near 
two  years,  it  was  at  length  filled  up  by  the  translation  of  Bishop 
Grindall  thither.  Dean  Hutton  was  one  of  the  persons  men- 
tioned to  succeed  him  in  the  See  of  London  ;  but  Archbp.  Parker 
obstructed  his  promotion  by  giving  this  character  of  him,  that 
"  he  took  him  for  an  honest,  quiet,  and  learned  man,  but  he 
"  thought  him  not  meet  for  that  place  ;"  which,  indeed,  required 
a  stirring  and  resolute  man,  and  of  a  more  rugged  disposition,  as 
was  Bp.  Sandys,  whom  the  Queen  translated  thither  from  Wor- 
cester.^* 

While  Dr.  Hutton  continued  Dean  of  York,  he  was  very 
zealous  in  preserving  the  rights  of  that  church,  as  appears  from 
two  instances  in  particular.  One  Mr.  Hammond,  of  Yorkshire, 
a  rich  and  covetous  man,  had,  through  some  courtier's  interest, 
applied,  "  that  his  son,  a  boy  of  tender  age,  and  little  learning 
"  or  discretion,  might  be  dispensed  withal,  to  receive  the  pre- 
"  bend  of  Riccall,  which  was  of  considerable  value,  meet  for  a 
"  preacher ;  and  that  country  was  then  much  destitute,  and 
"  stood  in  need  of  preachers." ^^  This  was  in  the  year  1570, 
when  that  prebend  was  vacant.  The  Dean's  interposition  pre- 
vailed, and  it  was  given  to  another.^*^ 

The  other  instance  is  this :  John  Gibson,  LL.D.  and  Pree- 
centor  of  York,^'^  procured  a  dispensation  from  the  Queen,  in 
1582,  that,  being  present  or  absent,  he  should  have  the  commodi- 

^  Strype's  Life  of  Abp.  Parker,  p.  295.     For  a  character  of  Abp.  Sandys, 
see  Dr.  Br.  "Willis's  Survey  of  the  Cathedrals,  vol.  i.  p.  48,  49. 
^  Strype's  Life  of  Abp.  Parker,  p.  298,  299. 
3«  See  Dr.  Willis's  Survey  of  the  Cathedrals,  vol.  i.  p.  159. 
3'  lb.  p.  76. 


DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON.  19 

ties  or  advantages  of  a  Canon  Residentiary.^^  But  tho'  the 
dispensation  was  expressed  in  as  ample  words  "  as  by  lawe 
"  maie  be  devised,  ex  certa  scientia  et  plenitudine  potestatis; 
"  which  are  clauses  of  the  greatest  force  that  are  in  the  lawe;" 
and  tho'  the  dispensation  was  "  signed,  first  with  her  Majestie's 
"  liande,  and  afterwards  with  the  broad  seal;*"^'^  tho'  Valen- 
tine Dale,  the  Clerk  of  the  Council,  represented  to  the 
Dean,  that  Dr.  Gibson  had  "  greate  frcndes,  whose  credit  with 
"  her  Majestic  might  do  very  much ;  and,  therefore,  in  his 
"  opinion,  they  should  do  verie  well  to  use  him  favorablie, 
"  and  to  enterprete  her  Majestie's  grant  as  beneficially  as  her 
"  Majestie's  meaning  was  at  the  tyme  of  the  graunting  thereof;"  ^° 
and  tho'  Abp.  Grindall  endeavoured  to  persuade  him  and  the 
rest  of  the  Chapter  to  comply  with  the  dispensation ;  ^^  yet  our 
worthy  Dean  could  not  be  brought  to  any  thing  further,  than 
that  Dr.  Gibson  should  enter  into  ordinary  residence,  and  bear 
all  charges  for  the  same,  as  is  requisite ;  notwithstanding,  that 
the  said  entry  into  residence,  at  that  time,  would  be  very  much 
to  his  hindrance.^-  A  just  and  very  commendable  instance  of 
resolution  in  Dean  Hutton,  who  alledged  for  the  reasons  of  this 
his  proceeding,  that  such  a  dispensation  was  contrary  to  their 
statutes,  and  opened  a  window  to  the  overthrow  of  the  good 
estate  of  their  church  ;*-^  and  he  doubted  not,  but  he  could  make 
good  proof  to  the  Lords  of  the  Council  that  so  much  of  the  dis- 
pensation as  was  needful  to  their  church,  and  took  from  other 
men,  and  gave  unto  him  what  he  never  had  before,  did  proceed 
upon  wrong  information.*^ 

He  opposed  also  some  encroachments  of  Edwin  Sandys,  Arch- 
bishop of  York,  a  man  of  a  restless  and  contentious  disposition. 
In  order  to  remove  the  Dean  out  of  his  way,  Sandys  used  his 
interest  at  court,  that  he  might  be  made  Bishop  of  Lichfield. 
For,  says  he,  "  I  cannot  live  with  that  man."  Li  return.  Dr. 
Hutton  taxed  him,  "  that  he  made  no  account  of  his  clergy  and 
"  the  preachers  of  the  Gospel."*^     Li  L576,  he  resigned  his  Rec- 

^^  From  original  letters. 

39  From  V.  Dale's  original  letter,  hereafter.  ■•"  Ibid. 

^'  From  four  letters  of  the  Archbishop's. 

«  From  a  letter  of  Abp.  Grindall.  "  Dean  Button's  original  letter. 

•»*  From  Dean  Button's  and  the  Chapter's  original  letter. 

•"  Dr.  Br.  Willis's  Survey  of  the  Cathedrals,  vol.  i.  p.  49. 

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20  THE   LIFE    OF 

lory  of  Bosworth.**^  In  1577,  it  appears  that  Abp.  Grindall 
had  an  intention  of  recommending  him  for  the  Bishopric  of 
Durham  or  that  of  Carhsle.*''  In  1578,  he  had  a  fall  attended 
with  a  hurt;  but  we  do  not  find  that  it  had  any  dangerous 
consequences.  The  same  year  there  was  thoughts  of  sending 
him  to  the  assembly  at  Smalcald. 

These  particulars  we  learn  from  a  letter  of  the  Earl  of  Hun- 
tingdon to  him,  wherein  are  these  passages :  "I  am  sorry  e  to 
"  understand  of  your  falle  and  harme  you  have  thei-bye  ;  but  I 
"  trust  God  will  shortlye  restore  you  to  your  olde  good  state 
"  agayne."  "  To  the  assemblie  at  Smalcald  her  Majestic  hath 
"  sent  certaine  persons  to  dissuade  and  staye  the  proceedings,  &c. 
"  Dr.  Humphrey  of  Oxford,  D.  Wilson  of  Worcest.,  D.  Still 
"  of  Cambridge,  and  D.  Hamonde,  a  civilian,  ar  appointed  for 
"  this  purpose.  And  if  hast  had  not  required,  the  Deane,  Mr. 
"  Hutton,  should  have  bene  the  principall ;  and  so  ought  he  to 
"  have  bene  allowed." 

In  1583,  his  old  friend  Abp.  Whitgift,  at  his  first  coming  to 
the  See  of  Canterbury,  wrote  him  a  very  obliging  letter,  wherein 
he  assured  him,  that  he  would  labour  to  have  him  removed  from 
the  Deanery  of  York  to  some  better  place.*^  However,  he  re- 
mained six  years  longer  fixed  in  his  old  station.'*'^ 

At  length,  having  continued  21  years  Dean  of  York,  he  was 
promoted,  in  1589,  to  the  Bishopric  of  Durham,  after  that  See 
had  been  vacant  two  years.  He  was  elected  the  9th  of  June, 
confirmed  the  26th  of  July,  and  consecrated  the  next  day.^° 
He  recovered  from  the  executors  of  his  predecessor,  Bp.  Barnes, 


■•^  Bp.  Wren's  notes  in  Le  Neve's  Lives,  p.  81. 

*''  This  I  infer  from  the  following  passage  in  a  letter  of  Abp.  Grindall  to  him : 
"  Iff  I  had  hadde  anie  speciall  creditte  when  Durham  and  Carl,  were  bestowed, 
''  some  hadde  not  spedde  so  well  ;  but  blame  your  selfe  and  S""  Tho,  Gary  ;  ye  two 
"  commendett  him,  to  be  rydde  of  him  ;  and  now  Simon  is  as  good  as  Peter." 

*^  That  clause  in  the  Abp.'s  letter  is  in  these  words  :  .  ..."  to  stay  you  there 
"  I  wyll  do  my  endevor,  unless  yt  be  for  some  better  preferment  ;  but  assure 
"  yourself  that  I  wyll  not  cease  to  labor  you  frome  thence,  yf  yt  may  be  to  such 
"  a  place  as  wyll  countervale  that,  and  wherein  you  may  doe  more  good." 

49  May  5,  1.582,  he  lost  his  2d.  wife  ;  and  took,  on  the  20th  of  November, 
1583,  to  his  3rd.  wife,  Frances,  widow  of  Martin  Bowes,  son  of  Sir  Martin 
Bowes,  Alderman  of  London.     Epitaph,  and  Fuller's  Worthies,  Lane.  p.  Ill, 

^  Registr.  Piers,  Archiep.  Ebor.  J.  Le  Neve's  Fasti,  p.  350. 


DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON.  21 

64cf .  os.  6d.  for  dilapidations.^^  Not  long  after  his  consecration, 
being  at  court,  he  dined  with  the  Lord  Treasurer  Burghley,  in 
his  private  chamber ;  none  being  present  besides,  but  Secretary 
Walsingham.  Those  two  great  statesmen  took  that  opportunity 
of  desiring  our  learned  Prelate's  sentiments  upon  some  points 
then  very  much  contested  :  of  which  he  afterwards  related  the 
substance  in  a  letter  to  Abp.  Whitgift,  dated  Octob.  10.  Those 
points  were,  concerning  the  Judicial  Law  of  Moses;  the  au- 
thority of  a  Prince  in  Causes  Ecclesiastical ;  and  the  authority 
and  lawfulness  of  Bishops. 

From  our  Prelate's  letter,  we  may  see  and  understand  what 
were,  upon  those  subjects,  the  judgements  of  the  Bishops  of  this 
Realm,  and  of  the  learnedest  Divines,  in  the  times  nearest  the 
Reformation,  who  consequently  knew  best  our  true  Constitu- 
tion.^^ In  1594,  his  lordship  laid  the  foundation  of  a  free 
school  at  Warton,  his  native  place.  Over  the  school  are  two 
large  chambers  for  the  master's  lodgings,  and  a  library,  furnished 
with  classic  authors,  for  the  use  of  the  masters  and  scholars. 
At  the  top  of  the  door  is  this  inscription,  "  Anno  Dom.  1594,  Deo 
&  bonis  Literis  Matt.  Hutton,  Episc.  Di;nelm."  He  gave  20£ 
a  year  to  the  master,  and  lOoC*  to  the  usher  ;  but  part  of  the 
usher's  salary  is  now  unhappily  sunk.  His  lordship  appointed 
also  alms  houses  to  be  erected  in  the  same  place,  or,  as  he  names 
it  in  his  will,  the  Hospital  of  Jesus.^^  The  poor  men  maintained 
in  it  are  six  in  number,  and  receive  each  o£  6s.  8d.^* 

In  the  beginning  of  the  year  1595,  his  lordship  was  translated 
from  Durham  to  the  Archbishopric  of  York.^^  His  conge 
d'elire  bore  date  Febr.  6,  1594-5.  He  was  elected  the  24th  of 
the  same  month  ;  had  the  royal  assent  March  6  ;  was  confirmed 
Mar.  24  ;  was  inthronized  by  proxy  March  81  ;  and  had  the 
temporalities  restored  April  Sd.  following.^^  Before  his  transla- 
tion, some  hard  and  disagreeable  conditions  were  required  of 
him ;  but  what,  is  not  mentioned ;  only  it  seems  to  have  been 

"  From  the  sentence  or  decree. 

*2  See  Strype's  Life  of  Whitgift,  p.  320,  321  ;  and  Appendix,  p.  131. 

*'  See  the  will  hereafter.  ^*  Thoresby's  Vicar.  Leod.  p.  141,  142. 

*'  He  would  rather  have  remained  at  Durham,  but  the  Queen  obliged  him  to 
remove  ;  sec  Archbp.  Whitgift's  letter  hereafter. 

^'^  Reg.  Eborac.  &  Regist.  Whitgift,  pars  ii.  fol.  45G  ;  and  Lc  Neve's 
Fasti,  p.  311. 


22  THE    LIFE    OF 

some  lease  disadvantageous  to  the  See,^^  which  he  scrupled  very 
much  to  submit  to.^^  When  he  was  fixed  in  that  high  station, 
he  made  it  his  business  to  stop,  as  much  as  he  could,  the  progress 
of  Popery,  which  was  very  prevailing  in  the  northern  parts  ;  and 
to  make  several  converts,  particularly  one  Dawson,  a  notorious 
priest.^9  This  Abp.  Whitgift  acknowledges  with  pleasure,  in  a 
letter  of  his  to  our  Primate,  dated  2d,  May,  1597,  wherein  is 
this  passage  :  .  .  .  "  The  last  letters  written  from  your  selfe  &  the 
"  Councell  there,  touching  certeyn  Papists  &  Recusants,  are  very 
"  well  taken,  and  yow  are  lyke  to  receave  thancks  for  the  same, 
"  especiallie  for  your  paynes  in  conference  with  some  of  them  to 
"  so  good  an  effect."  ^°  But,  notwithstanding  his  diligence,  com- 
plaints were  soon  after  made  against  him,  as  if  he  were  grown 
negligent  in  that  point ;  ^^  so  inconstant  is  popular  applause  !  ^^ 
Perhaps  he  was  milder  in  his  proceedings  than  some  zealots 
would  have  wished ;  for  it  is  certain  that  Abp.  Hutton  was  not 
of  a  persecuting  spirit. 

However,  upon  the  prevailing  of  these  reports,  Abp.  Whitgift 
thought  fit  to  acquaint  his  brother  Primate,  "  that  Recusants 
"  were  said  to  increase  rather  than  to  diminish,  in  the  Province 
"  of  York  ;  which  was  imputed  to  the  Archbishop's  making 
"  some  imworthy  men  ministers  ;  and  to  his  not  procuring  a 
"  sufficient  number  of  learned  clergymen  fit  and  able  to  preach 
"  the  Gospel ;  therefore  he  desired  to  know  what  number  of 
"  preachers  and  of  Recusants  they  had  in  the  North."  Arch- 
bishop Hutton  in  his  answer  said,  "  That  as  to  his  conferring 
"  orders  upon  such  bad  men  as  was  suggested,  he  did  not  remem- 
"  ber  it ;  but  that  he  had  heard,  which  might  give  occasion  to  the 
"  report,  that  two  or  three  had  counterfeited  his  hand  and  seal, 
"  and  were  fled  out  of  the  country.  That,  as  for  preachers,  there 
"  were  many  good  ones  in  the  Bishopric  of  Durham,  and  good 
"  store  in  the  Archbishopric  of  York.  But  in  Northumberland 
"  there  were  but  few,  because  the  greatest  livings,  which  were  in 
"  the  Queen's  hands,  were  let  to  fermours,  who  would  not 
"  contribute  any  thing  to  a  preacher;  and  that  he  had  about  him 
"  as  chaplains  some  godly  learned  preachers.     He  added,  that 

*7  See  letter  in  its  order.  *8  From  original  letters. 

^*  See  letters  hereafter. 

•"*  See  letter  in  its  order.  The  substance  of  it  is  inserted  here. 

^'  From  original  letters.  ^^  See  letters. 


DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON.  23 

"  now  for  every  offence  don,  the  quarrel  is  with  the  clergy.  He 
"  knew  well,  that  neither  he  nor  others  did  escape  evil  tongues. 
"But  let  us,  said  he,  piously  study  to  have  a  good  conscience 
"  toward  God,  and  then  his  will  be  donne."  Ending  with  this 
sentence,  "  Arbitrii  nostri  non  est,  quid  quisque  loquatur."  ^^ 

About  the  same  time,  disputes  having  arisen  in  the  University 
of  Cambridge,  on  the  occasion  of  Peter  Baro,  the  Lady  Marga- 
ret's Professor,  who  maintained  conditional  predestination,*^^  our 
Archbishop,  in  answer  to  a  letter  of  Whitgift's  upon  that  sub- 
ject, "  wished  that  Baro  were  in  his  own  country,  and  not  dis- 
*'  turb  the  peace  of  our  church  ;  and  that  another  should  be  put 
"  in  his  place,  who  was  learned,  godly,  and  mild  of  nature  ;  and 
"  store  of  such  Cambridge  afforded."'''  *^^  But  our  Prelate's  advice 
was  not  followed.  Shortly  after,  he  sent  to  Abp.  Whitgift  a 
small  treatise  on  Election  and  Reprobation,  pi-epared,  it  seems, 
at  his  request,  in  order  to  have  it  published  by  his  procure- 
ment.^^ And  also  delivered  his  sentiments  to  him  upon  the 
Lambeth  Articles  ;^^  by  which,  Abp.  Hutton  appears  to  have 
been  for  unconditional  predestination. 

Upon  the  death  of  Henry  Hastings,  Earl  of  Huntyngdon,  pre- 
sident of  the  Council  of  the  North,  in  1596,  the  frugal  Queen 
would  not  maintain  his  household  servants ;  ^^  and  to  save 
charges,  as  I  take  it,  appointed  Abp.  Hutton  president,  tho' 
his  Grace  was  averse  to  that  employment.  He  would  fain 
rather  have  had  some  fit  nobleman  appointed  by  her  Majesty, 
and  sent  down  to  be  president  and  lieutenant ;  and  he  fre- 
quently writ  to  court  for  that  purpose  ;  ^^  but,  notwithstanding 
his  solicitations,  he  continued  burdened  with  that  office  till  Au- 
gust, 1599.^'^  In  1600,  he  had  an  attack  from  the  courtiers  for 
some  disagreeable  grant,  as  appears  from  the  letter  in  the  Appen- 
dix.^^  It  was,  indeed,  too  much  the  custom  of  Queen  Elizabeth 
to  extort  such  kinds  of  disadvantageous  grants  from  her  Bishops, 
which  must  be  called  a  blemish  in  her  reign. 

63  Strype's  Life  of  Whitgift,  p.  477,  478. 

64  A  full  account  of  him  is  in  Strype's  Life  of  Whitgift,  p.  464,  &c. ;  and  in 
Biographia  Britannica,  vol.  i.  "^  Strype's  Life  of  Whitgift,  p.  476. 

«6  Ibid.  p.  447. 

«7  Ibid.  p.  461.  478 ;  and  Dr.  Fuller's  Church  History,  book  ix.  p.  230. 
^  See  the  letter  hereafter.  "^  All  this  is  taken  from  original  letters. 

See  the  letter.  ^°  See  the  letter.  ■"  See  hereafter. 


24  THE    LIFE    OF 

His  Grace  began  now  to  decline  in  his  health.  For  a  parlia- 
ment being  summoned  to  meet  at  Westminster  the  27th  of 
Octob.  1601,  Qu.  Elizabeth  sent  him,  on  the  25th,  a  licence  to 
be  absent  from  the  said  parliament ;  understanding,  "  that 
"  neyther  in  respect  of  his  great  yeeres,  nor  of  his  want  of  helth, 
"  he  was  liable  to  come  up,  without  greate  danger  to  his  par- 
"  son."^^  The  like  hcence  was  sent  him,  21  Febr,  1603-4,  to  be 
absent  from  the  first  parliament  of  K.  James  I. ;  "  considering 
"  how  daingerous  it  would  be  for  his  helth,  in  respecte  of  his 
"  greate  age  and  indisposition  of  body,  to  venture  the  taking 
"  uppon  him  of  so  long  a  journey."  ^^ 

Upon  the  same  account  of  his  great  age  and  infirmities,  his 
Grace  could  not  come  up  in  order  to  be  present  at  the  Hampton 
Court  Conference  in  1603.  But  Abp.Whitgift  having  desired  his 
judgement  and  resolution  on  several  points,  namely,  concerning 
Appropriations  ;  and  the  Government  of  the  Church,  whether  by 
Bishops  or  Presbyters  ;  of  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  and 
Administration  of  the  Sacraments,  whether  to  overthrow  it,  or  to 
make  alterations  of  things  disliked  in  it ;  concei'uing  the  Sign  of 
the  Cross  in  Baptism ;  and  concerning  praying  in  the  Litany  to 
be  delivered  from  sudden  death  :  our  learned  Prelate  sent  him 
on  those  several  points  his  opinion,  dated  Oct.  3,  1603,^*  which 
he  concludes  thus :  "  The  Lord,  for  his  Christ's  sake,  bless  his 
"  Majesty  with  his  manifold  graces,  that  he  may  maintain  the 
"  Gospel  in  this  Church,  as  his  dear  sister,  most  worthy  Queen 
"  Elizabeth,  did  leave  it ;  and  that,  as  he  in  his  Golden  Book,  to 
"  the  prince  his  son,  doth  shew  his  dislike  both  of  superstitious 
"  and  giddy-headed  Puritans,  so  God  may  give  him  courage  to 
"  withstand  them  both  :  that  neither  the  Papists  may  obtain 
"  their  hoped  toleration,  nor  the  Puritans  their  phantastical  plat- 
"form  of  their  Reformation.''''^^  On  the  18th  of  December, 
1604,  his  Grace  wrote  an  excellent  letter  to  Rob.  Cecyll,  Lord 
Cranbourne,  in  answer  to  an  order  of  Council,  that  had  been  sent 
him  for  the  suppressing  of  Puritans,  wherein  he  has  these  words  : 
"  I  have  received  letters  from  your  Lordship,  and  others  of  his 
"  Majesty's  most  honourable  Privy  Council,  concerning  two 
"  points.     First,  that  the  Puritans  be  proceded  with  according 

'■■^  From  the  original.  '^^  From  the  original. 

'''  His  Grace's  letter  is  printed  at  length  in  the  Appendix  to  Strype's  Life  of 
Ahp.  Whitgift,  p.  231—236. 

"  Stry])e's  Life  of  Archbishop  Whitgift,  p.  570,  «&c.  ;  and  Appendix,  p.  231. 


DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON.  25 

"  to  law,  except  they  conform  themselves.  Secondly,  that  good 
"  care  be  had  unto  greedy  patrons,  that  none  be  admitted  in 
"  their  places  but  such  as  are  conformable,  and  otherwise  worthy 
"  for  their  virtue  and  learning ;  and  I  have  written  to  the  three 
"  Bishops  of  this  province,  and  in  their  absence  to  their  Chan- 

"  cellors,  to  have  a  speciall  care  of  this  service I  wish  with 

"  all  my  heart  that  the  like  order  were  given,  not  only  to  all 
"  Bishops,  but  to  all  magistrates  and  justices  of  the  peace,  &c.  to 
"  proceed  against  Papists  and  Recusants,  who  of  late,  partly  by 
"  this  round  dealing  with  the  Puritaus,  and  partly  by  some  ex- 
"  traordinary  favour,  have  grown  mighty  in  number,  courage, 
"  and  insolency.  The  Puritans,  whose  fantastical  zeal  I  mislike, 
"  though  they  differ  in  ceremonies  and  accidents,  yet  they  agree 
"  with  us  in  the  substance  of  Religion.  And  I  think  all,  or  the 
"  most  of  them,  love  his  Majesty  and  the  present  state ;  and  I 
"  hope  will  yield  to  conformity.  But  the  Papists  are  opposite 
"  and  contrary  in  very  many  substantial  points  of  Religion  ;  and 
"  cannot  but  wish  the  Pope's  authority  and  Popish  Religion  to 
"  be  established.  I  assure  your  Honour  it  is  high  time  to  look 
"  to  them.  Very  many  are  gone  from  all  places  to  London ;  and 
"  some  are  come  down  into  this  country  in  great  jollity,  almost 
"  triumphantly.  But  his  Majesty  as  he  has  been  brought  up  in 
"  the  Gospel,  and  understandeth  Religion  excellently  well,  so  he 
"  will,  no  doubt,  protect,  maintain,  and  advance  it  even  unto  the 
"  end.  So  that  if  the  Gospel  shall  quail,  and  Popery  prevail,  it 
"  will  be  imputed  principally  unto  you,  great  Councillors,  who 
"  either  procure,  or  yeild  to  graunt  toleration  to  some,  &c. 
"  Good  my  Lord  Cranborn,  let  me  put  you  in  mind,  that  you 
"  were  born  and  brought  up  in  true  Religion.  Your  worthy 
"  father  was  a  worthy  instrument  to  banish  superstition,  and  to 
"  advance  the  Gospel.  Imitate  him  in  this  service  especially. 
"  As  for  other  things,  as  I  confess  I  am  not  to  deal  in  state- 
"  matters,  yet  as  one  that  loveth  and  honoureth  his  most  excel- 
"  lent  Majesty  with  all  my  heart,  I  wish  less  wasting  of  the 
"  treasure  of  the  realm,  and  more  moderation  in  the  lawful  exer- 
"  cise  of  hunting ;  both  that  poor  men's  corn  may  be  less  spoiled, 
"  and  others,  his  Majesty's  subjects,  more  spared."  ^"^ 

This  good  man  now  drawing  near  his  end,  and  being,  as  we 
may  suppose,  very  weak  and  infirm,  we  hear  of  no  further  public 
act  of  his,  but  his  giving  a  hundred  marks    towards    the    new 
'6  Strype's  Life  of  Archbishop  Whitgift,  Appendix,  p.  247,  248. 


26 


THE    LIFE    OF 


buildings  of  Trinity  College,  in  CambridgeJ^  At  length,  having 
arrived  to  a  good  old  age,  and  continued  Bishop  and  Archbishop 
above  sixteen  years  and  a  half,  having  lived  to  see  his  children's 
children  and  peace  established  in  his  country,  he  piously  re- 
signed his  soul,  on  the  16th  of  January,  1605-6,  at  his  Palace  of 
Bishop's  Thorp.  His  body  was  interred  in  the  south  isle  of  the 
choir  of  the  cathedral  at  York,  and  a  handsome  monument  was 
erected  to  his  memory,  of  which  a  print  is  hereunto  annexed  J** 

The  epitaph  on  that  monument  is  as  follows  :  [But  we  must 
observe,  that  his  being  said  there  to  be  80  years  old  at  the  time 
of  his  death,  is  a  mistake.  For,  if  he  was  born  in  1529,  as  Dr. 
Fuller,  who  had  an  exact  annarie  of  his  life  from  his  nearest 
relation,  informs  us,  then  he  could  be  but  in  the  76th  year  of 
his  age.^^] 

Epitaphium  Matthsei  Hutton,  cele- 

berrimi  Archiepiscopi  Ebor. 

Memorise  Sacrum, 

Cujus   expressam   coqioris    Effigiem 

Cernis  Lector,  si  Mentis  quoque 
Imaginem  videre  cupis  Ambrosium 

Vel  etiam  Augustinmn  cogita  ; 

Alterius  quippe  Ingenium  argutum 

Alterius  limatum  Judicium  hoc  Prjesule 

Vivente  viguit, 

Qui  in  Academia  Cantabr.  olim  S.  T.  P. 

Publicus  et  literarum  columen  claruit : 

Postea  erat  ad  Decanatum  Ebor. 

Hinc  ad  Episcopatum  Dunelm. 

Illinc  ad  Archiepiscopatum  Ebor.  (providen. 

Divina)  Serenissimse  Reginse  Elizabethse 

Auspiciis   propter   admirabilem    conditionis, 

Integritatis,    et   Prudentise   Laudem   provectus, 

Et  decurso  tandem  setatis  suae  anni  80 

Curriculo,  Corpus  Adee,  animam  Christi 

Gremio  commendavit. 

Ecquid  vis  amplius,  Lector  ?  Nosce  teipsum. 

Obiit  16  Die  Mensis  Jan. 

Anno  Dni,  1605. 

^'  Bp.  Godwin's  Catalog,  of  the  Archbishops  of  York. 

"  [The  print  of  Archbishop  Hutton's  monument,  from  Drake's  Eboracum,  is 
here  inserted  in  Dr.  Ducarell's  MS.] 

'*  See  Fuller's  Worthies  in  Lancashire,  p.  Ill  ;  and  Br.  Willis's  Survey  of 
the  Cathedrals,  vol.  i.  p.  32, 


DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON.  27 

As  to  the  character  of  Abp.  Hutton,  it  hath  been  represented 
to  great  advantage  by  his  contemporaries  and  others.  Dr.  Tobie 
Matthew,  in  particvilar,  expatiates  very  much  in  his  praise. 
But,  lest  his  encomium,  which  is  very  long,  should  break  too 
much  the  thread  of  our  narrative,  and  especially  as  it  is  in  a 
letter,  we  have  therefore  thrown  it  into  the  Appendix.^"  "  He 
"  was  unquestionably  a  man  of  great  learning,  and  an  excellent 
"  preacher.^^  As  he  was  in  place,  so  was  he  in  learning,  and  es- 
"  pecially  in  reading,  not  second  to  any  in  his  time  ;  insomuch  as 
"  in  Cambridge  he  was  one  of  the  chosen  dispiitants  before  the 
"  Queen ;  and  a  Jesuit  disgracing  our  English  students,  as  neg- 
"  lecting  and  not  reading  the  Fathers,  excepts  this  Matthew 
"  Hutton,  and  one  famous  Matthew  more ;  and  of  this  Hutton 
"  he  saith,  Qui  unus  in  panels  patres  versare  dicitur ;  who  is  one 
"  of  those  few  that  searcheth  the  Fathers.^'  The  Lord  Burgh- 
"  ley  commends  him  very  much  for  his  moderation  in  these 
"  words  :  '  God  contynew  his  graces  inyow,  by  which  your  liff  and 
"  actions  are  reported  very  good  of  all  your  neighbours,  and  in 
"  sekyng  to  reform  those  y'  ar  out  of  the  waye.  The  ordinary 
"  waye  to  reduce  them,  w*^''  I  hear  yow  use,  is  by  gentle  instruc- 
"  tion  of  them,  first  to  se  and  fele  ther  palpable  errors,  and  so  to 
"  prepare  them  to  se  y*  truth.'  ^^  In  a  word,  as  Dr.  Fuller  con- 
"  eludes  his  account  of  him,  '  he  was  a  learned  prelate,  lived  a 
"  pious  man,  and  left  a  precious  memory.' '"  ^* 

Tho'  he  was  a  very  learned  man,  we  do  not  find  that  he  pub- 
lished anything  himself,  except  one  sermon,  preached  in  the 
Cathedral  of  York,  before  the  Honourable  Henry  Earl  of  Hunt- 
ingdon, Lord  President  of  her  Majesty's  Council,  and  other 
Lords,  printed  in  8^°.  1579  ;  wherein  he  manifests  a  great  zeal 
against  the  errors  of  the  Roman  Church,  and  supports  it  with 
much  primitive  learning.*^^ 

But  several  pieces  of  his  have  been  since  published  by  other 

s"  See  the  letter  hereafter. 

«'  Br.  Willis's  Survey  of  the  Cathedrals,  vol.  i.  p.  51,  52. 

^^  Sir  John  Harrington's  Briefe  View,  &e.  p.  191. 

*3  Postscript  of  an  original  letter  of  L**  Burghley  to  Dr.  Hutton,  dated  12 
Aug.  1577.  '■'  Worthies  in  Lancashire,  p.  112. 

85  Thoresby's  Vicaria  Leodiens.  p.  139,  140.  He  had  it  in  his  Museum.— 
It  was  preached  at  a  general  communion  in  the  Cathedral  of  York,  23  Sept. 
1576  :  a  copy  of  it  is  in  the  library  at  Lambeth. 


28  THE    LIFE    OF 

persons,  namely, — A  joint  Letter  of  his  and  other  chief  members 
of  the  University  of  Cambridge,  to  their  Chancellor,  Secretary 
Cecyll,  desiring  him  to  regulate  the  election  of  the  Vice-Chan- 
cellor  and  other  principal  officers  in  that  j)lace,  dated  18  Jan. 
ISGS.^*^  A  joint  Letter  of  his  and  some  of  the  heads  of  colleges 
to  the  same,  requesting  him  to  stop  a  proclamation  that  was 
coming  out  for  enjoyning  the  use  of  the  old  Habits.*^^  A  Letter  of 
his  to  Secretary  Cecyll  on  occasion  of  the  death  of  Abp.  Young.*^^ 
His  Account  to  Abp.Whitgift,  10  Octob.  1589,  of  a  private  con- 
ference between  him,  the  Lord  Treasurer  Burghley,  and  Secre- 
tary Walsingham,  about  Episcopacy  and  other  ecclesiastical 
points.*'^  His  Judgement  of  the  Lambeth  Articles; 9°  and  Letter 
to  Abp.  Whitgift  about  the  same.  The  date  of  this  letter,  as 
printed  in  Fuller's  History  of  the  Church,^^  is  wrong  ;  for  it  is 
dated  1  Octob.  1595,  whereas  the  Lambeth  Articles  were  not 
made  till  20  Novemb.  that  year.^"  Letter  to  Abp.  Whitgift, 
concerning  Preachers  in  the  North,  &c.^^  dated  14  March,  1595. 
Letter  to  the  same  Archbishop,  9  Octob.  1603,  concerning  some 
points  that  were  to  be  debated  at  the  Hampton  Court  Con- 
ference/^* Letter  to  Bp.  Matthewe  upon  his  receiving  intelli- 
gence of  the  death  of  Abp.  Whitgift.^^  Letter  to  Eob.  Cecyll 
Lord  Oranborne,  in  answer  to  an  order  of  Council,  for  suppressing 
of  Puritans,  Dec.  18,  1604.9"^ 

Sir  John  Harrington  gives  the  substance  of  a  sermon  he  heard 
preached  by  our  Primate  at  court.^^  But,  his  account  of  it  being 
too  long  to  insert  here,  we  have  referred  it  to  the  Appendix. ^^ 

««  Strj^e's  Life  of  Abp.  Whitgift,  p.  8. 

^''  Strype's  Life  of  Abp.  Parker,  p.  194  ;  and  Appendix,  p.  69,  70. 

^*  Strype's  Annals,  voL  i.  edit.  1725,  p.  550  ;  and  Dedicat.  of  his  Life  of 
Grindall,  p.  iii. 

«»  Strype's  Life  of  Whitgift,  p.  320,  321  ;  and  Appendix,  p.  131. 

»»  Ibid.  p.  461.  »'  Book  ix.  p.  230,  231. 

^  See  Strype's  Life  of  Whitg.  p.  461.  »'  Ibid.  p.  477,  478. 

^*  Id,  ;  Appendix,  p.  231.  »*  Ibid.  p.  239.  ^^  Ibid.  p.  247. 

97  Briefe  Review  of  the  State  of  the  Church  of  EngL,  p.  186. 

*^  [This  part  of  Dr.  Ducarcll's  Appendix  we  give  in  a  note,  according  to  tiie 
phin  which  we  have  adopted.] 

SIR  JOHN  Harrington's  account  and  substance  of  a  sermon  preached  at 

COURT,  BY  A^.  HUTTON. 

I  no  sooner  remember  this  famous  and  worthy  Prchite,  but  me  thinks  I  see 
him  in  the  Chappel  at  Whitehall,  Queen  Elizabeth  at  the  window  in  the  Closset, 


DR.    MATTHEW    IIUTTON.  29 

Mr,  Tlioresby  gives  the  following-  relation  concerning  another 
sermon  of  his.  The  Roman  Catholics  in  Yorkshire  were  corn- 
all  the  Lords  of  the  Parliament  spirituall  and  temporall  about  them,  and  then 
after  his  three  courtsies,  that  I  heare  him  out  of  the  pulpit  thundring  this  text : 
"  The  kingdomes  of  the  earth  are  mine,  and  I  doe  give  them  to  whom  I  will,  and 
I  have  given  them  to  Nebuchodonozor  and  his  son,  and  his  son's  son :"  which 
text,  when  he  had  thus  produced,  taking  the  sense  rather  then  words  of  the 
Prophet,  there  followed  first  so  generall  a  murmur  of  one  friend  whispering  to 
another,  then  such  an  erected  countenance  in  those  that  had  none  to  speake  to, 
lastly  so  quiet  a  silence  and  attention  in  expectance  of  some  strange  doctrine, 
where  text  it  selfe  gave  away  kingdomes  and  scepters,  as  I  have  never  ob- 
served either  before  or  since.  But  he,  as  if  he  had  been  a  Jeremiah  himselfe, 
and  not  an  expounder  of  him,  shewed  how  there  were  two  speciall  causes  of 
translating  of  kingdomes,  the  fulnesse  of  time  and  the  ripenesse  of  sinne,  that 
by  either  of  these,  and  sometime  by  both,  God  in  secret  and  just  judgements 
transferred  scepters  from  kindred  to  kindred,  from  nation  to  nation  at  his  good 
will  and  pleasure,  and  running  over  historically  the  great  monarchies  of  the 
world,  as  the  kingdome  of  Egjqit  and  after  of  Israel,  swallowed  up  by  the  Assi- 
rians  and  the  golden  head  of  Nabuchodonozor,  the  same  head  cut  off  by  the 
silver  brest  and  amies  of  the  Medes  and  Persians,  Cyrus  and  Darius,  this  silver 
consumed  by  the  brazen  belly,  and  that  brasse  stamped  to  powder  by  the  Iron 
legges  of  the  Romans  and  Caesar.  Then  coming  neerer  home,  he  shewed  how 
oft  our  nation  had  been  a  prey  to  forreiners  :  as  first  when  we  were  all  Brittans 
subdued  by  these  Romans  ;  then,  when  the  fulnesse  of  time  and  ripenesse  of  our 
sinne  required  it,  subdued  by  the  Saxons  ;  after  this  a  long  time  prosecuted  and 
spoyled  by  the  Danes  ;  finally  conquered  and  reduced  to  perfect  subjection  by 
the  Normans,  whose  posterity  continued  in  great  prosperity  till  the  days  of  her 
Majesty,  who  for  peace,  for  plenty,  for  glory,  for  continuance,  had  exceeded 
them  all,  that  had  lived  to  change  all  her  councillors  but  one,  all  officers  twice 
or  thrice,  some  bishops  foure  times  ;  onely  the  uncertainty  of  succession  gave 
hopes  to  forreiners  to  attempt  fresh  invasions  and  breed  feares  in  many  of  her 
subjects  of  a  new  conquest :  the  onely  way  then  said  he  that  is  in  pollicy  left  to 
quale  those  hopes  and  to  asswage  these  feares  were  to  establish  the  succession. 
He  noted  that  Nero  was  specially  hated  for  wishing  to  have  no  successor,  that 
even  Augustus  was  the  worse  beloved  for  appointing  an  ill  man  to  his  successor, 
and  at  last  insinuating  as  farre  as  he  durst  the  neernesse  of  bloud  of  our  present 
Soveraigne,  he  said  plainly,  that  the  expectations  and  presages  of  all  writers 
went  northward,  naming  without  any  circumlocution  Scotland,  which  said  he,  if  it 
prove  an  errour,  yet  will  it  be  found  a  learned  errour.  When  he  had  finished 
this  sermon,  there  was  no  man  that  knew  Q.  Elizabeth's  disposition  but  imagined 
that  such  a  speech  was  as  welcome  as  salt  to  the  eyes,  or,  to  use  her  own  word, 
to  pin  up  her  winding  sheet  before  her  face,  so  to  point  out  her  successor  and 
urge  her  to  declare  him  ;  wherefore  we  all  expected  that  she  would  not  onely 
have  been  highly  offended,  but  in  some  present  speech  have  shewed  her  displea- 
sure.    It  is  a  principle  not  to  be  despised,  Qui  nescit  dissimulare  ncscit  regnare  : 


30  THE    LIFE    OF 

manded  by  the  Queen's  authority  to  be  present  at  fifty 
sermons  in  York  Cathedral,  preached  by  the  most  eminent 
Divines  of  the  church  of  Enghmd.  Our  Archbishop  preached 
the  last  to  a  very  numerous  audience,  the  L**  President,  and 
the  Queen's  Council,  the  Lord  Mayor  and  Aldermen,  and 
many  of  the  principal  gentry  of  the  country  being  present. 
But  the  Papists  that  were  forced  to  be  there,  stopped  their 
ears  or  talked  aloud,  to  make  his  Grace  give  over  the  sermon. 
His  text  was,  John  viii.  47.  "  He  that  is  of  God,  heareth 
God's    words;     ye    therefore   hear    them    not,    because    ye    are 

she  considered  perhaps  the  extraordinary  auditory,  she  supposed  many  of  them 
were  of  his  opinion,  she  might  suspect  some  of  them  had  perswaded  him  to  this 
motion,  finally  she  ascribed  so  much  to  his  yeares,  to  liis  place,  to  his  learning, 
that  when  she  opened  the  window  we  found   ourselves  all  deceived  ;  for  very 
kindly  and  calmly  without  shew  of  offence  (as  if  she  had  but  waked  out  of  some 
sleepe)  she  gave  him  thanks  for  his  very  learned  sermon.     Yet  when  she  had 
better  considered  the  matter,  and  recollected  herselfe  in  private,  she  sent  two 
councellours  to  him  with  a  sharp  message,  to  which  lie  was  glad  to  give  a  pa- 
tient  answer.       But   in   this   time   that    the   Lords   and   Knights   of  Parlia- 
ment and  others  were  full  of  this  sermon,  a  great  Peere  of  the  realme,  that  was 
then  newly  recovered  of  an  impediment  in  his  hearing  (I  would  he  did  heare  no 
worse  now),  being  in  great  liking  of  the  Archbishop  for  this  sermon,  prayed  me 
to  prove  my  merit  with  his  Grace  to  get  a  copy  thereof,  and  to  use  his  name  if 
need  were,  alledging  that  impediment ^jvhich  caused,  though  he  were  present, 
that  he  carried  away  little  of  it.    I  did  so,  and  withall  told  how  my  selfe  had 
stood  so  incommodiously,  by  meanes  of  the  great  presse,  as  I  heard  it  not  well, 
but  was  faine  to  take  much  of  it  on  trust  on  other  men's   reports,  who  varyed 
so,  as  some  I  was  sure  did  him  wrong.     The  Archbishop  welcom'd  me  very 
kindly,  and  made  me  sit  with  him  a  pretty  while  in  his  lodging  ;  but  in  fine 
he  told  me  plainly  he  durst  give  no  copy,  for  that  Sir  John  Fortescue  and  Sir 
John  Wolley  (as  I  remember)  had  beene  with  him  before  from   the  Queene 
with  such  a  greeting  as  he  scant  knew  if  he  were  a  prisoner  or  a  free  man, 
and  that  the  speech  being  already  ill  taken,  the  writing  might  exasperate  that 
which  already  was  exulcerate  ;  so  he  denyed  my  suit,  but  in  so  loving  a  fashion, 
as  from  that  time  to  his  end  I  did  greatly  honour  him,  and  I  laid  up  in  my  heart 
many  good  lessons  I  learned  of  him.     And  it  was  not  long  ere  the  Queen  was 
so  well  pacified,  that  he  went  downe  with  the  Presidency  of  Yorke  in  the  vacancy 
(lialfe  against  his  will)  committed  to  him,  till  afterward  the  Lord  Burleigh,  now 
Earle  of  Exeter,  of  whose  courage,  fidelity,  and  religious  heart  the  Queen  had 
great    assurance,    was    made    the    Lord    President. — {Sir  John    Harrington's 
Briefe  View  of  the  State  of  the   Church  of  England,  ^x.     Lond.  1653,  12".  p, 
186—191.) 


DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON.  SI 

not  of  God."  99  A  small  treatise  of  his  about  predestination 
was  printed  in  1618.^'^° 

Archbishop  Hutton,  as  I  have  already  observed,  had  three 
wives.  1.  Catharine  Fulmesby  [in  1565],  which  dyed  soon 
after  marriage.  2.  Beatrix,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Fincham^°^ 
[or,  according  to  the  Pedigree,  Fanshaw,  in  1567],  which  brought 
him  eight  children,  and  dyed  in  1582.  8.  Frances,  widow  of 
Martin,  son  of  Sir  Martin  Bowes  [in  1583]  ;  she  outlived  him, 
not  dying  till  August  10,  1620.^°- 

His  second  wife  lyes  buried  in  the  south  isle  of  the  Choir  of 
the  Cathedral  at  York,  with  this  epitaph  : 

Hie  jacet  Hiittoni  conjux  pia,  fida  Beatrix  ; 

Terra  tegit  terrain,  mens  loca  summa  tenet. 

Felix  ilia  fuit  dum  vixit  prole  viroque, 

Junctior   at   Christo   morte   beata   magis. 

Obdormivit  quinto  die  Maii,  1582.'°^ 

The  children  he  had  by  her  were:  1.  2.  Mark  and  Stephen, 
that  dyed  young.  3.  Timothy,  seated  at  Marske,  of  whom  and 
his  posterity  we  shall  give  a  particular  account  in  the  next  sec- 
tion. 4.  Thomas,  seated  at  Nether  Popleton,  near  York,  of 
whom  also  and  his  posterity  we  intend  to  give  an  account  in  the 
third  section.  5.  Thomasine,  [b.  1572,  died  1599,  bd.  at  Ripon,] 
married  to  Sir  William  Gee,  Secuetary  and  one  of  Council  for  the 
North.^*^*  6.  Elizabeth,  [b.  1568,]  married  to  Richard  Remington, 
D.D.  Prebendary  of  North  Newbald,  in  the  church  of  York, 
[from  1585  to  1615,]  Archdeacon  ofCliveland,  and  afterwards  of 
the  East  Riding.^*^^     7.  Anne,  married  to  John  Calverley 

99  Thoresby's  Vicar.  Leod.  p.  144,  145. 

*""  The  title  of  it  is,  Brevis  et  dilucida  Explicatio  verae,  certfe,  et  consola- 
tionis  plense  Doctrinse  de  Electione,  Prsedestinatione  ac  Reprobatione  ;  Authore 
Mathseo  Eboracensi  Archiepiscopo,  Theologo  eximio.  With  other  pieces  on  the 
same  subject,  by  Este,  Somes,  Cliaterton,  and  Willet  ;  and  the  Lambeth  Arti- 
cles. After  which  comes  Abp.  Hutton's  Dedication  to  AbP.  Whitgift,  dated  at 
Bishopsthorpe,  Calend.  Octob.  A.D.  1595.  Impensis  Henrici  Laurentii  Am- 
sterodam.  Librarii,  An.  mdcxiii. — Lambeth  Library. 

'*"  See  Fuller's  Worthies  in  Lancashire,  p.  Ill  ;  and  above. 

'02  See  the  Pedigree.  '"3  F.  Drake's  Hist,  of  York,  p.  508. 

•"^  See  the  Archbishop's  Will. 

'"*  Willis's  Survey  of  Cathedrals,  i.  p.  100.  103.  155. 


32  THE    LIFE   OF    DR.    MATTHEW   HUTTON. 

8 married  to  George  Slate,  aP.  Slater,  Prebendary  of  Barne- 

by,  in  the  church  of  York,  [from  1574  till  1590,]  and  also  Preben- 
dary of  Southwell,  and  Rector  of  Bainton  upon  the  Wolds,  in 
the  county  of  York.^°^ 

By  liis  third  wife  Archbishop  Hutton  doth  not  appear  to  have 
had  any  children  Z*^^ 

'«"  Ibid.  p.  117. 

'"^  [Further  extracts  from  the  parish  register  of  St.  Michael's  le  Belfrey,  in 
York,  made  28  Jmie,  1811,  are  here  inserted,  which  we  liave  embodied  in  the 
Pedigree.  The  dates,  &c.  in  brackets  above  are  insertions  in  pencil  in  a 
modern  hand.] 


33 


SECTION  II. 


OF    THE    BUTTON    FAMILY    OF    MARSKE. 


Timothy  Hutton,  above  mentioned,  eldest  son  of  Archbishop 
Hutton,  was  born  about  the  year  1569.  Where  he  received  his 
education,  we  have  no  account  ;  most  probably,  it  was  at  York. 
About  March,  1592,  he  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir 
George  Bowes,  then  deceased.  He  had  been  Knight- Marshal^ 
to  Queen  Elizabeth,  who  was  Godmother  to  his  daughter,  and 
named  her  after  her  own  name.  Her  mother  was  Jane  Talbot, 
aunt  to  the  Earl  of  Shrewsbury.^  After  the  solemnization  of 
that  marriage,  Bp.  Hutton  gave  his  son  nineteen  hundred  pounds, 
as  appears  by  the  following  Deed.  [See  this  Deed  in  its  chrono- 
logical order.] 

In  1594,  he  returned  to  his  studies  again,  (which  very  proba- 
bly had  been  interrupted  by  his  marriage,)  as  we  learn  from  this 
letter  of  Dr.  Tobie  Matthew  to  him.  [See  the  Letter  hereafter 
in  the  Appendix.]  He  was  put  in  the  commission  of  the  peace 
for  the  North  Riding  of  the  county  of  York,  in  1598,  as  is 
evident  from  the  following  letter  of  his  father  the  Archbishop 
to  him.     [See  1598  hereafter.] 

In  1605,  the  same  year  that  his  father  died,  he  was  High 
Sheriff  of  Yorkshire  and  knighted.^ 

He  had  the  misfortune  in  1625  of  losing  his  lady,  who  was 
buried  in  the   chancel  of  Richmond   Church   in  the   county  of 

*  [This  is  a  singular  mistake.  Sir  George  Bowes,  being  already  a  knight, 
was  armed  with  military  or  martial  power  during  the  North-fl-n  Rebellion  in 
1569  ;  but  there  was  no  necessary  connection  between  his  title  of  knight  and 
the  office. — Ed.] 

2  Pedigree  ;  and  Epitaph  of  this  lady  a  little  lower. 
Fuller's  Worthies  in  Yorkshire,  p.  220  ;  and  F.  Drake's  History  of  York, 
p.  354. 

D 


84  THE    HUTTON    FAMILY 

York,  of  which  burgh  he  was  an  Alderman.'*  He  hhnself  died 
in  1629,  and  was  buried  by  her  side.  Their  eldest  son  erected, 
afterwards,  a  monument  for  them  against  the  south  wall  of  the 
said  chancel  ;  on  which  is  the  following  long  epitaph,  whereof 
the  part  that  belongs  to  Lady  Hutton  was  composed  by  her 
husband.^ 

"*  See  the  Ei^itaph. 

*  ["  The  effigies  of  Sir  Timothy  and  his  lady  are  placed  in  a  recess  in  the 
wall,  kneeling  on  embroidered  cushions  with  golden  tassels,  and  both  facfng  the 
east,  with  hands  conjoined  and  elevated  in  the  attitude  of  prayer  :  he  in  the 
dress  of  a  knight,  armed,  except  his  helmet  and  gauntlets,  a  sword  by  his  side 
and  gilt  spurs  at  his  heels,  with  a  peaked  beard  and  lank  hair  :  she  in  a  loose 
black  gown  or  mantle,  hanging  down  to  her  feet,  the  sleeves  close  at  the  wrists, 
a  large  quilled  frill  about  her  neck,  her  hair  combed  back  over  a  roll  and  tied 
behind  with  a  golden  fillet  ;  at  the  top  of  her  head  is  a  small  flat  oval  cap  of 
lace,  turned  over  her  forcliead  from  the  back  part  of  her  neck.  Over  them  are 
painted  the  arms  Hutton,  Gules,  on  a  fess  between  three  cushions  Argent,  tasseled 
Or,  as  many  fleurs-de-lis  of  the  first,  impaling  Bowes,  Ermine,  three  long  bows 
bent  in  pale,  Gules.  Facing  Sir  Timothy  are  jjlaced  again  his  arms,  and  those  of 
the  lady  behind  her.  Under  the  parents  are  engraven  small  figures  of  their 
twelve  children  in  a  row,  some  lying  in  swaddling-cloathes,  and  others  kneeling 
in  military,  ecclesiastical,  and  female  dresses,  peculiar  to  the  age  in  which  they 
lived,  each  over  its  own  inscription.  Beneath  this  are  their  respective  arms, 
according  to  the  connection  which  they  formed  by  marriage,  &c.  Round  the 
whole  are  placed  in  separate  situations  female  figures,  emblematical  representa- 
tions of  Faith,  Hope,  and  Charity,  with  Fame  at  the  top  blowing  her  trumpet, 
between  two  angels.  The  attitudes  of  all  the  figures  are  graceful,  and  afi'ord 
fine  specimens  of  monumental  sculpture,  which  reflect  great  credit  on  that  age. 
The  whole  is  in  fine  preservation,  and  was  erected  by  their  son,  Matthew,  to 
the  memory  of  his  respected  parents." — Clarkson's  History  of  Richmond,  p. 
160,  where  there  is  an  engraving  of  the  monument. — It  is  stated  by  Dr. 
Duearell,  above,  that  the  inscription  referring  to  Lady  Hutton  was  composed 
by  Sir  Timothy,  her  husband.  The  words  "  sic  deflevit"  do  not  warrant  this 
inference.  It  is  more  probable  that  the  whole  of  the  inscription,  both  upon  the 
parents  and  their  children,  was  written  by  John  Jackson,  who  at  that  time  was 
Rector  of  Marske,  under  Sir  Timothy's  patronage.  Jackson  is  the  acknowledged 
author  of  a  similar  monumental  inscription  in  memory  of  his  own  wife  (see 
Whitaker's  Richmondshire,  i.  224)  ;  and  to  his  pen,  without  almost  any  shadow 
of  doubt,  must  be  referred  that  most  singular  epitaph  in  Hebrew,  Greek,  Latin, 
and  English,  discovered  now  upwards  of  half  a  century  ago,  in  Easby  Clmrch, 
near  Richmond,  in  memory  of  Richard  Swale,  a  person  apparently  of  great 
merit.  Dr.  Whitaker,  in  his  History  of  Richmondshire  (i.  106),  gives  a  fac- 
simile of  this  inscription,  and,  as  the  date  is  wanting,  places  it  a  century  earlier 
tlian  what  appears  to  be  its  real  period,  very  fancifully  ascribing  it  to  the  pen 


OF    MARSKE.  35 

Dominus   Timotlieus   Hutton,    Eques   Auratus,    (Filius   Reverendissimi   in 
Christo  patris  Matthaei  Archiepiscopi  Eborum,  prsesulis   ob  acre  judicium  et 
morum  gravitatem  invidendo  hoc  elogio  decorati,  quod  dignus  esset,    [qui^] 
prsesideret  consilio  oecumenico)  hie  deposuit  exuvias  suje  mortalitatis. 
Quoad  pietatem  et  religiouem,  uno  verbo,  patrissabat : 

Quoad  IIpo(ra)Troypa(f)iav,  adco  enituit  in  blando  vultu  vcneranda  majestas,  ut 
vere  diceres  eum  ad  imaginem  Conditoris  conditum  ; 

Quoad  opes,  fuerunt  illae  non  raptee,  immo  non  paitae,  sed  rclictse  ; 
Quoad  prolem,  felicissimus  fuit  tam  iroXvTfKvia  quam  evreKvia  ; 
Quoad  vitam,  beavit  eum  prse  caeteris  trias  ista,  liilaris  animus,  facundum  os, 
et  mensa  hospitalis. 

Denique  quoad  mortem,  aBavaa-ia  decubuit  hie  servus  Christi  eo  ipso  die,  quo 

Dominus  resurrexerat,  anno  ultimse  patientiae  sanctorum,  1629. 

Timotheus  Huttonus 

Tt/x»7  Qeov,  ov  Tovos. 

Non  vox  nuda  sonus  volitansve  per  sethera  inanis, 

Sed  res  est  rerum,  prosequi  honore  Dcum. 

Memorise  Sacrum  Dominse  Elizabethse  Hutton,  quae  habuit  patrem,  per-illus- 
trem  virum,  Dominum  Gcorgium  Bowes  de  Streatlam,  militem  ;  matrem  autcm 
Janam  Talbot,  praenobili  prosa^ia,  et  nunc  temporis  Comiti  Salopiae  amitam. 
Maritum  obtinuit,  generosum  Equitem,  Dominum  Timotheum  Hutton  de  Marske, 
Richmondiae  Aldemiannum,  Reverendissimi  patris  Domini  Matthaei,  Archi- 
episcopi Eborum,  filium  priorem  natu,  per  quem  reliquit  post  se  speciosam  sane 
prolem. 

Ne  vivam,  lector,  si  unquam  viderim  foeminam  vel  religione  erga  Deum,  vel 
observantia  in  maritum,  vel  indulgentia  in  liberos,  magis  flagrantcm. 

Placidissin^e  in  Domino  obdormivit  pridie  Dominicae  Palmarum  anno  salutis 
suae  1625. 

Anima  hujus  Elizae  mox  abiit  ad  Elisium, 

Theca  animae  hie  infra  secundum  Christi  adventura  expectat. 

Coelestem  posuit  Dcus  atris  nubibus  arcum.     Gen.  ix.  13. 

Et  sic  non  irae  nuncius  Iris  erat ; 

Sic  dedit  ille  arcum  milii,  iidum  pectus  Elizae, 

Tempora  si  fuerint  nubila  nostra  malis. 

Estque  pharetra  mihi,  calami  quoque  sunt  mihi,  me  nam  [P.'*.  cxxvii.  5.] 

Quinque  vocant  pueri  et  trina  puella  patrem. 

Frangitur,  heu  !  arcus,  remanent  tamen  octo  sagittffi. 

Quae  cor  transfigunt  patrio  amore  meum, 


of  Miles  Coverdale.  The  hand-writing,  for  it  is  upon  parchment,  is  clearly 
cf  the  period  of  Charles  I.  ;  and  this  settles  the  point  as  far  as  Coverdale  is 
concerned. — Ed.] 

^  "  Qui  is  left  ovit  on  the  monument  through  the  negligence  of  the  writer." — 

F.  Blackburn  e. 

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36  THE    HUTTON    FAMILY 

Hap,  Deus  alme,  bea,  pvecor,  illam  namque  beasti. 
Sic  coelum  jungat  nos  societque  simulJ 
Sic  defunctam  charam  suam  uxorem  deflevit  Timotlieus  Hutton. 

1.  Matthseus. 
As  careful  mothers  do  to  sleeping  lay 
Their  babes,  that  would  too  long  the  wanton  play ; 
So,  to  prevent  my  youth's  approaching  crimes, 
Nature,  my  nurse,  had  me  to  bed  betimes. 
Nutricis  mese  felici  incuria, 
Citius  locor  coelesti  in  curia, 
Hinc  nulla  mihi  facta  est  injuria, 
2.  Jana. 
Vix  tibi,  Jana,  duos  concessvmi  est  cernere  Janos, 
Jam  vitse  coeli  janua  jamque  patet. 
This  I  have  gain'd  by  being  no  longer  liv'd, 
Scarce  sooner  set  to  sea  tlian  safe  arriv'd. 

3.  Eleanora. 

I  liv'd,  I  di'd  ;  yet  one  could  hardly  know, 
I  di'd  so  soon,  whether  I  liv'd  or  no  : 
Oh  !  what  a  happy  thing  it  is  to  lie 
I'  th'  nurse's  arms  a  week  or  two,  and  die.® 

4.  Beatrix, 
Felici  nimium  tu  prole  beata  Beatrix, 
Tarn  pia  tu  conjux,  quam  pia  mater  eras. 

Vitam  habuit  in  patientia, 
Mortem  in  desiderio.^ 

5.  Matthseus.  •  • 

Num  morum  magis  aut  nummorum  tu  patris  hseres  ? 
Clarus  tu  natus  magis,  an  pater  inclytus  ille  ] 
Inclytus  ille  pater,  prseclarus  tu  quoque  natus, 
Pacis  amans,  et  justiciarius  fequus  uterque. 
Charus  et  ille  suis^  charus  et  ipse  tuis. 

(Arms,  Hutton  impaling  D'Arcy.) 


"^  Upon  the  tablet  in  the  margin  of  this  part  of  the  inscription  is  painted  a 
bleeding  heart  pierced  by  twelve  arrows,  and  a  broken  bow.  The  name  of 
Bowes  and  the  armorial  bearings  of  Lady  Hutton's  family  are  alluded  to  in 
almost  every  line. 

*  There  are  diminutive  representations  of  the  above  three  children,  A\Tapped  in 
swaddling-clothes,  above  the  inscriptions  which  refer  to  them,  and  beneath  each 
is  the  family  coat  of  arms. 

^  Arms  beneath,  Mauleverer  impaling  Hutton.  James  Mauleverer  of  Arn- 
cliffe,  Esq,,  and  Beatrix  Hutton,  were  married  27th  Nov.  1613  in  Richmond 
Church. 


OF    MARSKE.  ot 

6.  Francisca. 
Pignus  amoris  babes  divini,  pignora  multa, 
Pignora  chaia  tibi,  tu  mage  chara  Deo. 
Pes  ill  terris, 
Spes  in  coelis. 
(Arms,  Dodsworth  impaling  Hutton.) 
7.  Timotbeus. 
Hoc  unum  (non  multa  peto)  da,  Cbriste,  roganti, 
Hoc  unum  mibi  da,  Cbriste,  placere  tibi. 

Honorantes  me  honorabo.     1  Sam.  ii.  30. 
(Arms,  Hutton  impaling  Bennet.) 

8.  Philippus. 

Vixi  dum  volui,  volui  dum,  Cbriste,  volebas  ; 
Sic  nee  vita  mibi,  mors  nee  acerba  fuit. 
EfjLOi  TO  C^v  Xpiaros  kol  to  atroBaveiv  Kfpbos.     Pbil.  i.  21. 
(Arms,  Hutton  impaling  Bowes.) 

9.  Jobannes. 

Sicut  avo  (preesul  fuit  bic  memorandus  Eborum) 
Fuit  et  odor  vitse  Biblia  sacra  mibi. 
Prseco  non  prsedo, 

Dispensator  non  dissipator.     1  Cor.  ix.  16,  17. 
(Arms,  Hutton  impaling  More,  and  below  is  tbe  family  crest.) 
10.  Elizabetba. 
I  strive  to  tread  tbe  steps  my  parents  trod ; 
This  is  my  aim,  bumbly  to  walk  witb  God.     Mic.  vi.  8. 
(Arms,  Cliburn  impaling  Hutton.) 
11.  Tbomas. 
Da  mibi,  Cbriste,  fidem,  bona  singula  sunt  tua  dona  ; 
Hanc  auge  pariter  tu  mibi,  Cbriste,  datam. 

Dominus  meus  et  Dens  mens.     Job.  xx.  28. 
(Arms,  Hutton.) 
12.  Anna. 
Into  tbis  world,  as  strangers  to  an  inn, 
Tbis  infant  came  guest-wise  ;  wbere  wlien  't  bad  been, 
And  found  no  entertainment  wortby  of  ber  stay, 
Sbe  only  broke  ber  fast  and  went  away. 
(A  child  in  swaddling-cloatbes  and  the  arms  of  Hutton.) 
Pietas  Mattbeei  Hutton  Armigeri  primique  familias  monumentum  hoc  posuit, 
non  in  vanam  gloriam,  sed  in  piam  memoriam  beatorum  parentum  prolisque 
eorum.     Anno  Xpia-royovias,  1639. 

By  this  Epitaph  it  appears,  that  Sir  Timothy  Hutton  and  his 
lady  had  twelve  children;  namely,  1.  Matthew,  who,  accordmg 
to  the  Epitaph,  dyed  young ;  2.  Jane,  who  did  not  live  two 
years  ;   3.  Elianore,  dyed  an  infant ;   4.  Beatrix  ;   5.  Matthew, 


38  THE    HUTTON    FAMILY 

the  eldest  surviving  son  and  heir ;  6.  Thomas  ;  7.  Timothy  ;  8. 
PhiHp,  a  scholar  ;  9.  John,  a  scholar  ;  10.  Elizabeth  ;  11. 
Thomas,  of  the  Six  Clerks'  office  ;  12.  Anne,  that  dyed  young. 

Matthew,  just  now  mentioned,  was  a  sufferer  during  our 
unhap])y  Civil  Wars :  for  he  appears  in  the  list  of  the  gentle- 
men that  compounded  for  their  estates  ;  his  composition  being 
£l32  12s.  lOd.  He  married  Barbara,  daughter  of  Conyers 
Lord  Darcy  and  Conyers,  by  whom  he  had  issue  one  son  named 
John,  and  three  daughters  ;  Dorothy,  married  to  Sir  Philip 
Warwick,  knt.^°;  2.  Barbara,  married  to  Thomas  Lyster,  of 
Bawtrey,  Esq. ;  and  8.  Mary,  wife  of  Richard  Piers,  of  Hutton 
Bonville  in  the  county  of  York." 

'"  [Vide  Gent.  Mag.  vol.  xl.  p.  781.] 

"  The  following  is  copied  from  a  loose  leaf  of  an  old  Testament,  published 
Anno  Dom.  1610.— (April  1814.— M.  F.) 

Matth.  Hutton  was  borne  October  22"' 1597. 

Barbara  Darcy,  my  wife,  May  3'''' 1600. 

Wee  were  marrycd  att  Hornby,  Aprill  22"'    1617. 


A  note  of  the  age  (and  witnesses)  of  all  my  children,  for  whom  (as  well  livinge 
and  dead)  the  Lord's  name  be  praysed. 

1.  Dorothy  was  borne  att  Marske July  22*''  1620 

2.  ]\Iattliew  was  borne  att  Richmond 10*"^'  22"'  1621 

3.  Timothy  )  ^^^^^.^  ^^^.^^^  ^^^  Marske S^^^  6"'  1625 

4.  John         } 

5.  Elizabeth  was  borne  att  Richmond ]\Iarch  4""  1628 

6.  Barbara  was  borne  att  Richmond 10'"^''  23"'  1630 

7.  Mary  was  borne  att  Marske Febr,  4"'  1636-7 

Wittnesses. 
Dorothy,  the  Lady  Darcy,  the  Lady  Hutton,  and  Sir  Thomas  Hutton. 
Matth.,  S""  Conyers  Darcy,  S""  Timothy  Hutton,  and  the  Lady  Hutton. 
T'nnothy,  S'  Talbot  Bowes,  Henry  Belasys,  and  the  Lady  Belasys. 
John,  Sir  John  Calverley,  Conyers  Darcy,  and  my  sister  Harrison. 
Elizabeth,  the  Lady  Lister,  my  sister  Mauleverer,  and  my  brother  M'\ 
Barbara,  my  cosin  Barbara  Delavale,  my  sister  Dodsworth,  and  my  brother. 
Mary,  Darcy,  H.  D,  wyfe,  and  Mary  Hutton,  J.  H.  wyfe. 


Extract  from  Marske  Register,  Oct.  1812. 
Marriage. — Thomas  Lister,  of  Bawtry,  within  y<"  Countie  of  York,  Esq^,  and 
M'\  Barbara  Hutton,   daughter  of  Matthew  Hutton   of  Marske,  within  the 


OF    MARSKE.  39 

John,  last  mentioned,  married  Frances,  daughter  of  Bryan 
Stapleton,  of  Myton,  Esq.  ;  and  had  by  her,  two  sons  and  five 
daughters  :  John  his  eldest  son  and  heir ;  Matthew,  that  dyed 
without  issue  ;  three  daughters,  which  dyed  unmarried  ;  Fran- 
ces, married  to  Andrew  Wanley,  of  Iford,  in  Gloucestershire, 
Esq.  ;  and  Olivia,  married  to  Thomas  Alcock,  of  Chatham, 
Esq. 

John,  the  eldest  son  and  heir,  married  Dorothy,  daughter  of 
William  Dyche,  or  Dyke,  of  Sussex,  Esq. ;  by  whom  he  had 
John,  now  living ;  Matthew,  late  Archbishop  of  York,  and  after- 
wards of  Canterbury,  of  whom  we  shall  presently  give  a  more 
particular  account;  and  three  daughters:  1.  Elizabeth;  2.  Fran- 
ces ;  and  3.  Henrietta,  married  to  John  Dodsworth,  Esq. ;  who 
had  by  her,  Matthew,  William  ;  Francis,  Rector  of  Holling- 
bourne  with  Hucking  in  the  county  of  Kent,  and  Vicar  of 
Minster  in  the  Isle  of  Thanet  ;  Frederic ;  and  two  daughters  ; 
Elizabeth,  married  to  James  Tunstall,  D.  D.,  Vicar  of  Rochdale, 
in  the  county  of  Lancaster,  and  Henrietta. 

John  Hutton,  now  of  Marske,  Esq.,  married  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  James  Lord  Darcy,  of  the  kingdom  of  Ireland ;  by 
whom  he  hath  had,  John,  Matthew,  James,  Anne  married  to 
George  Wanley  Bowes,  Esq.,  and  Elizabeth. 

Countie  aforesaid,  Esq"".,   were  married   the   16"^   day  of  April,    1655,   before 
Will™.  Thornton. 

Thomas  Lister,  Esq''.,  and  M'K  Barbara  Hutton,  both  aboves**.,  were  pub- 
lished accordinge  to  lawe  on  three  Sundayes  within  the  parish  Church  of  Marske 
abovs"*,  March  y<^  25"',  April  the  first,  the  8"',  1655. 


40  DR.   MATTHEW    HUTTON, 


DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON,    ARCHBISHOP    OF    CANTERBURY. 


A  MORE  particular  account  of  the  late  Dr.  Matthew  Hutton, 
successively  Bishop  of  Bangor,  Archbishop  of  York,  and 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury.^* 

The  great  and  good  man  of  whom  we  are  now  going  to  treat 
was  born  at  Marske,  January  the  Srd,  1692-8.  In  the  year 
1701,  he  was  sent  to  school  at  Kirby  Hill,  near  Richmond, 
under  the  care  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Loyd,  who  had  been  educated 
at  Jesus  College  in  Cambridge.  At  Whitsuntide  1704,  he  re- 
moved to  Rippon,  with  Mr.  Loyd,  newly  elected  Master  of  the 
Free  School  in  that  town.  He  continued  there  till  Whitsun- 
tide 1710. 

On  the  22nd  of  June,  1710,  Mr.  Hutton  was  admitted  in 
Jesus  College  in  Cambridge,  where  he  took  the  degree  of  Batch- 
elor  of  Arts  in  1713,  and  that  of  Master  in  17 17.^^  On  the  8th 
of  July,  1717,  he  was  elected  Fellow  of  Christ's  College;  and, 
when  arrived  to  a  proper  age,  entered  into  Deacon's  and  Priest's 
orders.  Shortly  after,  Charles,  Duke  of  Somerset,  appointed 
him  one  of  his  domestic  Chaplains,  in  the  room  of  Dr.  Grigg; 
whom  his  Grace,  as  Chancellor  of  the  University,  had  j)ut  in 
Master  of  Clare  Hall,  because  the  Fellows  had  not  chosen  a 
Master  within  the  time  limited  ;  and,  upon  the  death  of  Dr. 
Grigg,  in  1726,  Mr.  Hutton  succeeded  him  in  the  Rectory  of 
Trowbridge  in  Wiltshire,  at  the  presentation  of  the  said  Duke. 
In  1728,  he  was  created  Doctor  in  Divinity,  at  the  Royal  Com- 
mencement ;^*  and,  in  1729,  he  succeeded  Dr  Darwin  in  the  great 
living  of  SpofForth,  near  Wetherby  in  Yorkshire,  at  the  present- 
ation of  the   same  noble  Duke,  his  patron.     Abp.  Blackbourne 

'^  This  is  sucli  an  instance  as  cannot  be  niatclied  in  tlie  whole  catalogue  of 
our  Englisli  Bishops,  nor  perhajis  of  any  other,  that  two  persons  of  the  same 
name  and  surname  should  be  raised  to  the  same  dignity  of  Archbishop  of 
York. 

'^  From  the  University  Registers.  "  From  the  same. 


ARCHBISHOP   OF   CANTERBURY.  41 

gave  him  also  a  Prebend  in  the  Cathedral  of  York.  Being  made 
one  of  the  King's  Chaplains  in  ordinary,  he  attended  his  present 
Majesty  K.  George  to  Hanover  in  1736  ;  soon  after  which,  he 
had  a  Canonry  of  Windsor  given  him,^^  which  he  exchanged,  18th 
May  1739,  for  a  Prebend  of  Westminster,  vacant  by  the  resig- 
nation, or  flight  of  El.  Thistlethwait.^^  Upon  the  translation  of 
Bp.  Herring  to  the  Archbishopric  of  York,  Dr.  Hutton  was  no- 
minated to  succeed  him  in  the  Bishopric  of  Bangor,  and  was  con- 
secrated in  Lambeth  Palace,  13th  November,  1743,  by  commis- 
sion fi'om  Abp.  Potter  (then  indisposed)  directed  to  the  Bishops 
of  Rochester^  Exeter,  Worcester,  and  Bristol .^"^ 

And,  upon  the  removal  of  Abp.  Herring  from  York  to  Can- 
terbury, Bishop  Hutton  succeeded  him  in  the  Primacy  of  York. 
Accordingly,  he  was  confirmed  Archbishop  of  York,  10th  De- 
cember, 1747,  in  the  parish  Church  of  St.  Martin's  in  the  Fields, 
by  Thomas,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  ;  the  Bishops  of  Roches- 
ter, Lichfield  and  Coventry,  Bristol,  and  Chichester,  being  pre- 
sent and  assisting. ^^ 

As  he  had  followed  Abp.  Herring  in  all  his  other  removes,  so 
he  followed  him  to  Canterbury.  For,  upon  the  death  of  that 
Prelate,^^  in  the  beginning  of  the  year  1757,  our  most  worthy 
Primate,  Abp.  Hutton,  was  named  his  successor  ;  and  on  Fri- 
day, the  29th  of  April,  1757,  was  confirmed  Archbishop  of  Can- 
terbury, in  the  parish  Church  of  St.  Mary  Le  Bow,  London,  by 
Richard  Lord  Bishop  of  Durham,  his  colleagues,  the  Bishojis  of 
Oxford,  Worcester,  Ely,  Bath  and  Wells,  Lincoln,  and  Here- 
ford, being  then  present  and  consenting.""  Shortly  after,  he 
was  elected  President  of  the  Corporation  of  the  Sons  of  the 
Clergy,  and  of  the  Society  for  Proj)agating  the  Gospel  in  Foreign 
Parts ;  and  one  of  the  Governors  of  the  Charter  House  ;  and 
also  appointed  one  of  the  Lords  of  his  Majesty's  most  Honorable 
Privy  Council."^     On  the  24tli  of  May,   1757,  he  confirmed,  in 

'^  He  was  installed,  26  March,  1737. 

'^  Widmorc's  History  of  Westminster  Abbey. 

'^  Upon  this  he  resigned  his  stall  at  Westminster. 

"*  Register  Herring. 

'^  Abp.  Herring  dyed,  March  13,  1757,  at  his  palace  in  Croydon. 

-"  Regist.  Hutton. 

*'  On  Wednesday,  the  18th  of  May  1757,  he  consecrated  a  piece  of  ground 
adjoining  to  the  Churchyard  of  the  parish  of  Saint  Mary,  Newington,  in  the 
county  of  Surrey,   as  an  additional  burying-ground  for  ever  :  the  inhabitants 


42  DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON, 

the  Church  of  St.  George's,  Hanover  Square,  his  successor  in  the 
See  of  York,  Dr.  John  Gilbert,  late  Bishop  of  Sarum  ;  and, 
September  the  3rd,  consecrated,  in  Lambeth  Chapel,  Dr.  Rich- 
ard Terrick,  Bishop  of  Peterburgh.  A  dispute  having  arisen 
between  his  Grace  and  his  predecessor's  executors  about  the 
dilapidations  at  Lambeth  Palace,  he  never  had  an  opportunity  of 
going  to  live  there,  which  he  could  not  well  do  till  they  were 
settled.  But  he  resided  two  or  three  months  in  the  summer  at 
Croydon  Palace ;  and,  when  in  town,  lived  at  his  own  house  in 
Duke  Street,  Westminster.  His  short,  too  short  indeed,  enjoy- 
ment of  his  dignity,  did  not  permit  him  to  settle  properly  in  any 
of  his  Archiepiscopal  Palaces.  For,  within  less  than  a  year 
after  his  translation  to  Canterbury,  he  was  unhappily  snatched 
away  from  his  friends,  and  from  the  Church  of  England,  to 
which  he  might  have  been  much  longer  (considering  his  years)  a 
great  advantage,  protection,  and  ornament.     . 

He  had  been  for  some  time  remarkably  well.  On  the  16th  of 
March,  1758,  he  heard  a  sermon  preached  before  the  Governors 
of  the  London  Hospital ;  from  whence  he  went  to  the  House 
of  Lords,  where  he  stay'd  till  near  nine  o'clock  at  night.  He 
supped  heartily  ;  rested  well ;  and  went  the  next  day,  Friday, 
17th  of  March,  to  the  House  of  Lords,  where  he  stayed  till 
past  eight  o'clock  at  night.  When  he  went  to  bed,  he  com- 
plained of  being  fatigued.  The  next  morning  early,  Saturday, 
March  the  18th,  he  was  taken  extremely  ill  of  an  inflammation  in 
the  bowels,  occasioned,  in  all  probability,  by  a  rupture  which  he 
had  been  afflicted  with  for  some  years.  All  possible  methods 
were  used  to  save  his  life  :  but  he  grew  worse  in  the  evening,  and 
continued  so  all  the  next  day,  March  19,  till  towards  ten  o'clock 
at  night,  when  he  expired  at  his  house  in  Duke  Street,  West- 
minster, aged  65. 

His  Grace  having  always  desired  to  be  buried  as  privately  as 
possible,  either  in  the  Churches  of  Lambeth  or  Croydon,  his 
lady  and  daughters,  whom  he  had  appointed  his  executrixes, 
caused  him  to  be  brought  from  his  house  in  Duke  Street,  to 
Lambeth  Palace  ;  and  to  be  buried  privately  in  the  Chancel  of 
Lambeth  Church,  on  Easter  Monday,  March  27,  in  the  evening 

having  previously  obtained  an  Act  of  Parliament  for  that  jiurpose. — Register 
Hutton. 


ARCHBISHOP    OF    CANTERBURY.  43 

between  nine  and  ten  o'clock.  He  lies  in  a  vault  near  the  com- 
munion table,  with  this  inscription  on  a  marble  stone. 

H.  S.  E. 

Reverendissimus  in  Christo  Pater 

Mattliajus  Hutton,  S.  T.  P. 

Cantuariensis  Archjepiscopus. 

Ob.  19,  Mart.  A.  D.  1758. 

JEt&t.  65. 

He  married,  in  March  1731-2,  Mrs.  Mary  Lutman,  daughter  of 
John  Lutman,  of  Petworth  in  the  county  of  Sussex,  gent.,  by 
whom  he  left  two  daughters,  Dorothy  and  Mary. 

This  great  Prelate  had  a  very  extensive  knowledge  of  men 
and  things  ;  was  endowed  with  very  quick  parts,  and  bless'd 
with  a  tenacious  memory.  He  was  an  excellent  scholar,  whose 
learning  was  well  digested  ;  and  a  polite  and  elegant  writer,  as 
appears  by  the  sermons  which  he  published.  1.  A  Sermon 
preached  before  the  House  of  Commons  at  St.  Margaret's,  West- 
minster, Jan.  80,  1740-1.  By  Matt.  Hutton,  D.D.,  Chaplain 
in  ordinary  to  his  Majesty.^"  2.  A  Sermon  preached  before  the 
E,.  Hon.  the  Lord  Mayor  and  Court  of  Aldermen,  the  Sheriifs, 
and  the  Governors  of  the  several  hospitals  of  the  city  of  Lon- 
don, at  the  parish  Church  of  St.  Bridget,  on  Monday  in  Easter 
week,  1744.  By  Matthew,  Lord  Bishop  of  Bangor.  3.  A  Ser- 
mon preached  in  the  parish  Church  of  Christ  Church,  London, 
on  Thursday,  April  the  26th,  1744;  being  the  time  of  the 
yearly  meeting  of  the  Children  educated  in  the  Charity  Schools 
in  and  about  the  cities  of  London  and  Westminster.  By  the 
Eight  Reverend  Matthew,  Lord  Bishop  of  Bangor.  4.  A  Ser- 
mon preached  before  the  Society  corresponding  with  the  Licor- 
porated  Society  in  Dublin,  for  promoting  English  Protestant 
Working  Schools  in  Ireland,  at  their  anniversary  meeting  in  the 
parish  Church  of  St.  Mary  le  Bow  on  Thursday,  March  28th, 
1745.   By  the  Eight  Eeverend  Matthew,  Lord  Bishop  of  Bangor."^ 

^  A  Sermon  preached  before  the  House  of  Lords,  Jan.  30,  1744.  By  Matthew, 
Lord  Bishop  of  Bangor. 

"^  A  Sermon  preached  before  the  Incorporated  Society  for  the  Propagation  of 
the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts,  at  the  anniversary  meeting  in  the  parish  Church  of 
St.  Mary  Le  Bow,  February  18,  1746.    By  Matthew,  Lord  Bishop  of  Bangor. 


44  DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON. 

5.^*  A  Sermon  preached  before  the  House  of  Lords  in  the  Abbey 
Church  of  Westminster  on  Wednesday,  June  11,  1746,  being 
the  day  of  his  Majesty's  happy  accession  to  the  throne.  By 
Matthew,  Lord  Bishop  of  Bangor. 

The  print ^^  of  this  great  and  good  man,  Archbishop  Matthew 
Hutton,  hereunto  annexed,  may  give  posterity  some  idea  of  his 
person,  but  will  never  be  able  to  convey  with  it  either  the  sweet- 
ness of  his  countenance,  or  his  many  excellent  qualities.  His 
Grace*'s  abilities  were  very  great,  and  known  to  be  so  ;  and  I 
believe  few  of  his  predecessors  were  better  qualified  than  himself 
for  the  high  and  important  stations  to  which  it  pleased  Provi- 
dence to  advance  him.  I  shall  not  presume,  nor  would  it  be- 
come me,  to  draw  up  any  character  of  his  Lordship  ;  but  what 
was  said  of  him  in  the  Gazette  of  March  21,  1758,  I  shall  here 
subjoin,  as  being  strictly  true  in  all  respects,  viz.  :  "  He  was  a 
"  gentleman  of  sound  learning,  clear  understanding,  of  great 
"  humanity  and  politeness,  and  easy  access  to  all  who  had  any 
"  occasion  to  apply  to  his  Grace,  either  on  business  or  advice  ; 
"  and  his  loss  is  most  regretted  by  those  who  knew  him  best." 

2*  A  Sermon  preached  before  the  Governors  of  the  London  Infirmary,  1746. 
By  Matthew,  Lord  Bishop  of  Bangor. 

^  [Dr.  Ducarell  refers  to  the  frontispiece  of  his  Memoir,  a  mezzotinto  engrav- 
ing of  the  Archbishop,  twelve  inches  by  ten,  T.  Hudson  pinxit,  J.  Faber  fecit, 
with  the  inscription,  "  The  most  Rev**.  Father  in  God,  Dr.  MatthcAv  Hutton,  by 
Divine  Providence,  Lord  Archbishop  of  York,  Primate  of  England  and  Metro- 
politan, Lord  Higli  Almoner,  and  one  of  his  Majesty's  most  Hon'''^.  Privey 
Comicil,  1748.  Price  2  shilL  ;  sold  by  J.  Faber,  at  the  Golden  Head  in 
Bloomsbury  Square."     Arms  of  York  and  Hutton  in  separate  shields.] 


45 


SECTION  III. 

OF    THE    HUTTON    FAMILY    OF    POPLETON. 


We  come  now  to  treat  of  Sir  Thomas  Hutton,  younger  son 
of  [the  first]  Archbishop  Hutton  ;  and  his  posterity  seated  at 
Nether  Popleton,  near  York. 

Some  have  blamed  our  Archbishop  for  granting  this,  and  the 
leases  of  other  estates,  to  his  sons,^  but  very  unjustly  ;  for,  since 
all  estates  must,  according  to  law,-  be  lett  for  three  lives  or 
twenty-one  years,  why  should  not  a  Bishop  have  the  liberty  to 
leave  some  of  them  to  his  family,  if  he  doth  not  violently  or  un- 
justly take  them  from  any  one  ?  Surely,  it  is  the  voice  of  divine 
Revelation  as  well  as  of  nature,  that  if  any  provide  not  for  his 
own,  and  especially  for  those  of  his  own  house,  he  hath  de- 
nied the  faith,  and  is  worse  than  an  infidel.     But  to  i-eturn. 

Sir  Thomas  Hutton  was  born  in  the  year  1581,  as  appears 
from  his  age  at  the  time  of  his  decease.^  His  father  gave  him, 
in  his  will,  the  manor  of  Davton,  a  house  and  lands  in  Ponte- 
fract,  and  the  lease  of  DryfReld  ;  appointing  him  joint  executor 
with  his  son  Timothy,  and  one  of  the  residuary  Legatees.  He 
was  afterwards  knighted,  but  when,  we  cannot  easily  find  ;  he 
dyed  23rd  Jan.  1620,  aged  39.  By  his  lady,  Ann,  daughter 
of  Sir  John  Bennet,  of  Dawley,  near  Uxbridge,  who  dyed  in 
1651,  aged  64,  he  had  one  son  named  Richard,  and  a  daughter, 
EHzabeth,  born  17th  February,  1619,  that  was  married,  first  to 
John  Robinson  of  Deighton,  secondly  to  Edward  Bowles,  or 
Bowes,  of  York  :  she,  as  well  as  this  her  second  husband,  dyed 
in  1662. 

'  Torre's  MSS.,  and  from  thence  Br.  Willis,  Snrvcy  of  the  Cathedrals,  vol.  i. 
p.  52,  and  Fr.  Drake's  Hist,  of  York,  p.  397. 
2  Statute  13  Elizab.  c.  10. 
'  Sec  his  Epitaph  hereafter. 


46  THE   HUTTON   FAMILY 

Richard  Hutton,  aforesaid,  was  baptized  5th  April,  1613, 
and  dyed  8th  April,  1618.  He  had  two  wives:  1.  Ursula, 
daughter  of  Sir  Edmund  Sheffield,  son  of  Edmund  the 
first  Earl  of  Mulgrave ;  hut,  within  the  first  year  of  their  mar- 
riage, she  dyed  in  childbed  of  a  daughter,  named  Ursula,  who 
also  lived  but  a  little  while.  The  2nd  wife  was  Dorothy,  daugh- 
ter of  Ferdinando,  Viscount  Fairfax,  Baron  of  Cameron,  in  Scot- 
land, and  of  Denton,  in  the  county  of  York  ;  which  lady  departed 
this  life,  7th  June,  1687.  By  her  he  had  four  sons:  1.  Sir 
Thomas  Hutton  of  Popleton,  his  eldest  son  and  heir.  2.  Rich- 
ard, seated  at  Pudsey.  3.  Matthew,  D.  D.,  Fellow  of  Brazen 
Nose  College  in  Oxford,  and  afterwards  Rector  of  Ainhoe  in 
Northamptonshire ;  an  excellent  historian  and  antiquary,  whose 

MS.  collections  are  in  the  British  Museum.*     4.  Charles 

and  a  daughter  named  Dorothy.  Of  these  four  sons,  and  their 
respective  issue,  we  shall  give  a  distinct  representation  in  the 
following  genealogical  table. 

*  See  his  Epitaph  hereafter. 


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Inscription  on  the  Monument  of  Sir  Thomiis  Hutton  in  the  Chancel  of  the 
Church  of  Nether  Popleton. 

Depositum  generosissimi  viri  Domini  Tlionise  Hutton  militis  qui  fuit  Hlius 

natu  minor  clarissimi  prsesulis  Domini  Matthsei  Hutton  olim 

Episcopi  Dunehnensis,  postea  Archiepiscopi  Eboraccnsis,  Anglise  Primatis 

et  Metropolitani,  hie  pie  et  placide  obdormivit  Januarii  xxiii''°, 

Anno  Salutis  1620,  setatis  39. 

Affixus  lecto  junctas  ad  Sydera  palmas 

Sustulit,  et  gratas  fudit  ab  ore  preces 

Ad   Deum   optimum   maxi-  /  Alme  Deus,  scelerum  contractas  abluc  sordes, 

mum.  (  Et  sine  labe  petat  spiritus  iste  jJolos. 


(  Et  venerande  pater,  quantum  spectarc  juvabit, 


Ad  uxorem  Annam  Benet.    | 


Ad  patrem  dcfunctum.  )  n/r  *    •      ■..       ■     r    i         i.        i 

^  \  Mutari  mitras  m  diadema  tuas  ! 

Anna  vale  !  Bencdicta  vale  !  communia  nobis 

Pignora  jam  conjux  sume  fovenda  tibi. 

Ad  unieum  fratrem   Domi-  (  Ad  fratrem  flectens  oculos,  fraterrime,  natis 

num  Timotheum  Hutton.  (  Sis  pater,  uxori  sisque  maritus,  ait. 

Ad   filium   Ricliardum    et    (  Colla  patris  soboles  moestis  complectitur  idnis. 

natam  Eliz.  (  Oscula  pro  tanto  reddit  amore  pater. 

Finis  erat  precibus,  scandit  pars  coelica  coelos, 

Altera  cognata  pars  requiescit  humo. 

Honoris  et  observantise  ergo  posuit  moerens  conjux. 

In  the  Chancel  of  Nether  Popleton  Church,  on  a  mural  monument. 

S.M. 

Dominas   Annfe    Hutton,    Johannis    Bennett    Equitis   aurati   nataj,   Thomse 

Hutton  (qui  equestris  etiam  ordinis)  nuptfe.     Cui  cum  duos  filios  et  tres  filias 

peperisset  viventi,  ac  ultra  triginta  annos  viduitatem  persolvisset,  mortua,  banc 

vitam  meliori  commutavit,  Jan.  18.,  a.  d.  1651.     ^t.  suae  64. 

Against  the  south  wall  of  the  same  Chancel  is  the  monument  of  Ursula,  first 
wife  of  Richard  Hutton,  Esq.  At  the  top  is  his  efiigies  kneeling  between  his 
two  wives. 

O  umbratilem  hujus  mundi  foelicitatem  prse  ilia  perenni  ac  coelcsti  !  Ne  dicas, 
Lector,  lapis  est  (pii  hoc  loquitur.  Nam  is  quovis  lapide  durior  ct  hebetior  est, 
qui  idem  non  mente  videt,  corde  sentit,  ore  profcrt.  Testis  locuples  et  generosa 
et  pia  fcemina  Domina  Ursula  Hutton,  cujus  ossa  sub  hoc  tumulo  molliter  de- 
cumbunt.  Quae  mundum  jam  utrumq;  docta  et  experta,  serio  monet  relictos 
mortales  sibi  superstites,  ut  spreta  hujus  voluptatula,  illius  tantum  scire  immor- 
talitatem. 

Ilia  cninij 

Quamvis  patre  nobili,  Domino  Edmundo  Sheifeild,  Comitis  Mulgraviae  filio, 
seeundo  genita,  quamvis  matre  generosissima,  Domina  Elizabctha  Darley  hserede 
prognata,  quamvis  viro  digno  Domino  liichardo  Hutton  de  Popilton  in  Agro 
Eboracensi  Armigero  juncta  et  locata,  quamvis  optata  Prole,  filia  spectabili 
beata  ac  ditata. 


OF    POPLETON.  49 


Sortem  nieritis 


.  )  Annos  Ingenio, 

Quamvis  No  tvt    -i  r       antevenit 

^  \  Sexum  Mori  bus,  ' 

V  Sanguincm  virtutibus, 

Uno  eodemque  anno  quem  suscepit  maritum,  reliquit  viduum  ;  una  eademq ; 

hora  quam  suscepit  natam,  reliquit  orphautem. 

O  umbratilem  hujus  mundi  felicitatem  ! 

DISTICHON. 

En  tibi,  Nata  Infans,  do  vitam,  tu  mibi  mortem  : 
Sic,  O  Cbriste,  tua  Mors  mihi  vita  fuit. 

In  Aynbo  Church  in  Northamptonshire : 

Matthaeus  Hutton,  S.  T.  P. 

Hujuscc  Ecclesise  Rector  integerrimus, 

Edwardo  Hutton  de  Poppleton 

In  comitatu  Eboracensi  Armigero, 

Et  Dorothea  uxore  ejus, 

Domini  Ferdinandi  Fairfax  Baronis  filia,  Natus, 

Antiquitatum  Brittanicarum  apprime  sciens, 

In  Ecclesiasticis  prsesertira  monumentis 

Pcrvolvendis  describendisque  indefessus, 

Vita  Severus, 

Moribus  Comis, 

Animo  Simplex, 

Primsevse  et  Fidei  tenax  et  pietatis  semulus, 

Elizabethan! 

Rogeri  Burgoyne  Baronetti  Filiam 

Sibi  Matrimonio  conjunctam  habuit, 

Et  mutuo  affectu  conjunctissimam. 

Quam, 

Duobus  ex  ea  susccptis  filiis 

Rogero  et  Thoma, 

Moerentem  reliquit 

Rcpentina  Morte  extinctus, 

Die  Jun.  27,  Ann.  Dom.  1711.     .^tatis  suxe  72, 


APPENDIX 


OP 


LETTERS 


AND    OTHER 


ORIGINAL     PAPERS. 


E  2 


53 


LETTER  I. 

DUDLEY    THE    EARLE    OF    LEYCESTER    TO    DR.   HUTTON,    READER 
OF    THE    QUEENES    MAJESTIES    DIVINITIE    IN    CAMBRIDGE.^ 

June  7,  1565.     (770.) 

Mr.  Hutton,  I  receaued  your  lettre  this  morning  the  7  of 
June.  Imedyatly  I  moued  your  sewte  to  the  Queen's  Majestie, 
touching  the  prebende  in  Westminster  voyd  by  the  death  of 
Mr.  Beamont ;  which  her  highnes  hath  graciouslye  graunted  vnto 
you,  and  in  so  fauorable  sort,  as  I  perceaue,  yf  yt  had  bin  a 
much  better  thing,  you  were  thought  worthie  to  haue  receaued 
yt  at  her  hands.  This  farre  of  hir  Majesties  good  opinione 
toward  you  I  thought  to  signifye  vnto  you  to  encreace  the 
smalnes  of  the  benefytt  of  your  sewte,  as  a  good  testyraony  of 
hir  further  better  dysposityon,  and  assured  satysfactyon  for  you, 
for  your  greater  hope  of  hir  more  goodnes  hereafter.  And  for 
myn  one  part  euen  as  in  this  tryfle,  so  when  you  shall  haue 
greater  occasione,  my  good  wyll  shall  apere  no  less  willing  and 
ready  to  pleasure  you.  Not  dowting  but  the  same  cause  which 
hath  moued  me  and  others  to  conceaue  so  well  of  you,  shall 
rather  encrease  and  fiorysh  in  you,  I  meane  your  knowlege 
and  zeale  towarde  the  trewth ;  and  than  dowbt  you  not,  but  as- 
sewer  yourself  of  such  good  wyll  and  frendshipp  as  I  and  such 
shal  be  able  to  she  we  you.  So  fare  you  hartyly  well.  From  the 
Court  in  hast  this  7  of  June. 

Your  veary  frende. 

El.  Leycester. 

To  my  verry  frend  M^  Hutton,  Reader  of  the 
Queen's  Majesty's   divynitye   Lecture   in 
Cambridge. 
(The  whole  letter  is  in  the  Earl  of  Leicester's  own  hand.     Armorial  seal.) 


'  These  headings  are  in  general  copied  from  endorsements  by  Sir  Timothy 
Hutton  ;  and,  where  a  number  (in  the  present  instance  770)  is  added,  it  must  be 
understood  that  the  letter  or  other  document  constituted  that  number  in  Sir 
Timothy's  arrangement  of  his  papers. — Ed. 


54  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 


LETTER  II. 

DR.  E.  GRINDALL,    BISHOP   OF    LONDON,    TO    DR.  HUTTON. 

15  Sep.  1566.     (788.) 

Salutem  in  Christo  !  Wheras  I  appoynted  you  to  preache 
att  Paules  Crosse  the  3  off  November  nexte  :  becawse  the  Par- 
lament  clothe  holde,  and  therfore  it  is  lyke  that  the  Bisshops  shall 
occupie  the  rowme  those  Sundays  in  the  myddes  oiF  the  tearme, 
I  muste  entreate  you  to  prevente  your  daye,  and  to  preach 
Dominica  17%  which  is  the  6  off  October  nexte.  The  tyme, 
thowghe  it  may  be  somewhatt  shorte,  is  longe  enoughe  for  you  ; 
and  I  am  destitute.  It  is  the  firste  Sundaye  off  the  Parlament, 
and  therfore  I  labour  to  have  one  learned  for  tbatt  daye.  I  praye 
you  fayle  nott,  and  certifRe  me  w"^  conveniente  spede  agayne. 
Fare  ye  well.     Frome  Fulham,  15  Septemb.  1566. 

Yo""  in  Christe, 

Edm.  London.^ 

To  my  lovinge  frende,  M"".  Doctor  Hutton, 
M''  off  Pembrooke  Halle  in  Cambnge. 

(In  the  Bishop's  own  hand.     Seal  of  arms  imperfect.) 


LETTER  III. 


A  LETTER  FROM  THE  FELLOWS  OF  PEMBROKE  HALL  TO  EDM. 
GRINDALL,  BISHOP  OF  LONDON,  SHEWING  WHAT  GREAT  RE- 
SPECT AND  ESTEEM  THEY  HAD  FOR  THEIR  MASTER,  DR. 
HUTTON. 

31  Ap.  1567. 

Dici  vix  potest  (amplissime  Prresul)  quantus  luctus,  quantum 
etiam  gaudium,  lectis  litteris  tuus,  animos  nostros  repente  in- 
vaserunt.  Et  luctum  equidem  non  mediocrem  attulit  aman- 
tissimi  in  nos  Praefecti  decessus.  Quem  enim  propter  egregiam 
doctrinam,  summum  in  nos  studium,  viteeq;  sanctimoniam,  cha- 

*  Edmund  Grindall,  Bishop  of  London  in   1559 ;  Archbishop  of  York  in 
1570  ;  Archbishop  of  Canterbury  in  1575. 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  55 

rum  et  intimum  semper  habuerimus,  eum  ita  nunc  arctis  ulnis 
amplectimur,  ut  nutricis  instar  non  sine  summo  mcerore  et  la- 
chrymis  climittamus.  Atque  certe,  ni  gravlssima  auctoritas  tua 
(qufe  apud  nos  jure  et  debet  et  possit  omnia)  intercessit,  lautius 
et  melius  nobis  consultum  putaremus,  priusquam  ^  complexu 
abstrahi  patiamur,  ejus  os  et  vultum  appellare.  Sed  vide, 
qu8eso,  quanta  sit  apud  nos  authoritas  tua,  quanta  vicissim 
animorum  nostrorum  retributio,  ut  ex  quo  nos  a  Papistica 
fiece  primus  repurgaras,  in  clientelam  tuam  receperas,  patro- 
cinium  tuum  et  defensionem  experti  sumus,  in  te  uno  consi- 
lium nostrum  et  spem  omnem  reposuerimus.  yEgerrim^  pati- 
mur  eum  a  nobis  divelli,  cui  enixfe  et  libenter  semper  adhse- 
simus.  Sed  cum  ita  sors  ferat,  cedemus  fato  nostro ;  cede- 
mus  numini  optime  providenti,  cedemus  Deo,  qui  omnia  co- 
operatur  in  bonum,  iis  qui  diligunt  ilium,  Et  nisi  fere  uno 
spiritu,  muliebri  more,  lachrymas  fundere  et  Isetitia  gestire 
videremur,  in  tanto  luctu  merito  lastari  possimus,  quod  eum 
nobis  custodem  eligendum  proponis,  in  quem  nos  precibus  ad 
amplitudinem  tuam  frequenter  iremus,  eum  a  nobis  te  impetra- 
turum  speres,  quem  nos  libenter  optamus  ;  optas,  quem  vix 
sperare  potuerimus.  Vehementer  ergo  nobis,  nostrisq  ;  studiis 
gratulamur,  Deoque  prsepotenti  imprimis  gratias  agimus,  quod 
non  ita  Ridleios  stirpitus  e  nobis  eradicaverit,  ut  unicam  fibram 
Grindallum  (quem  honoris  causa  nominamus)  una  etiam  tollat. 
Hinc  enim  Huttonus  nobis  ortus,  qui  vires  nostras  non  medio- 
criter  auxit.  Hinc  tandem  Whitgiftus,  quem  unum  in  optatis 
et  habemus  et  volumus  maxime.  Age  ergo  (lionorande  patrone) 
quod  impetrare  vis,  illud,  tabellis  subscriptis,  summo  animorum 
nostrorum  ardore  impetrasti.  Quod  petis  a  nobis  in  illud  in- 
cumbas,  et  nos  vicissim  a  dominatione  tua  petimus,  quod  tanto 
studio  inchoasti,  bonis  avibus  perficias.  Vale  !  Pridie  Calend. 
Maii  Anno  1567." 

3  Quoted  at  length  by  Dr.  Ducarell,  in  his  Memoir  from  the  Appendix  to 
Strype's  Life  of  Whitgift,  No.  ii.  p.  4. 


56  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 


LETTER  IV. 

LADY    HUNTINGDON    TO    MR.   DEANE    OF    YORKE. 

Julie  21,  1575.     (871.) 

After  my  verye  hartie  commenclacions.  Forasmuch  as  a  kins- 
man of  my  lorde  and  a  coseu  of  myne  doe  intend,  by  the  gi-ace 
of  God,  to  marrye  together  vppon  Sondaye  nexte,  I  am  there- 
fore bould  to  desyre  you,  that  you  woukl  take  the  paynes  to  be 
here  againste  that  tyme,  and  to  bestowe  a  shorte  sermon  vppon 
vs,  suche  as  for  the  short  warning  you  have  maye  suffise  for 
that  audience.  The  which  ended,  or  before,  att  your  discretion, 
I  muste  further  intreate  you  to  helpe  to  sollempnize  that  ma- 
nage. And  even  soe,  being  bould  to  truble  you,  I  doe  bidd  you 
hartelye  fare  well.     Att  York,  this  xxj*''  of  Julye,  1575. 

Your  frend  in  the  Lord, 

K.  Huntingdon."* 

Good  Mr.  Deane,  refuse  not  to  take  this  paines  in  being  heare 
against  Sondaie  ;  which  I  shall  thinke  my  sealfe  beholdine  to  you 
for  the  same,  and  will  be  redie  to  pleasure  you  in  any  thing  I 
maie. 

To  my  very  loving  frend,  M^  Deane  of  York. 


LETTER  V. 


EDMUND      GRINDALL,      ARCHBISHOP     OF      CANTERBURY,     TO     DR, 
MATTHEW    HUTTON,    DEAN    OF    YORK. 

25  April,  1577.     (84.) 

Salutem  in  Christo  !  I  hartely  thanke  je  for  your  favour 
extendett  towards  this  bringer  W.  Allen.  I  perswade  my  selfe 
that  ye  shewed  him  favour  for  my  sake  in  the  office   bestowed 

*  Katharine,  daughter  of  John  Dudley,  Duke  of  Northumberland,  sister  of 
Robert  Earl  of  Leicester,  and  wife  of  Henry  Hastings,  Earl  of  Huntingdon 
at  this  time,  and  till  the  year  1595,  President  of  the  Council  in  the  North, 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  57 

vpon  him,  and  thatt  ye  had  rememhrance  off  my  sute  made  vnto 
ye  for  him  heretofore,  and  therefore  I  thanke  ye  accordynglye. 
Iff  I  had  hadde  anie  speciall  creditte  when  Durham  and  CarL^ 
were  bestowed,  some  hadde  not  spedde  so  weh  :  but  blame  your 
selfe  and  Sir  Tho :  Garg :  ye  2  comendett  him,  to  be  rydde  off 
him  :  and  nowe  Simon  is  as  goodd  as  Peter,  This  geare  wokle 
make  a  man  synge  "•  Mei  autem  pene  moti  sunt  pedes,''''  ^c. 
(Ps.  72.  2.) 

Off  myne  owne  present  state  I  thynke  ye  can  nott  be  igno- 
rant :  it  maye  be,  that  evell  reports  flye  abroade  agaynste  me  ; 
my  meanynge  is  goode.  The  ende  is  in  Groddes  handes,  to  whose 
grace  I  hartely  commende  you ;  with  my  sahitations  to  M^ 
Palmer,  and  the  reste  off  myne  olde  Ohapleyns  Prebendaries  off 
your  chirche.      Lambethe,  25  Aprilis,  1577. 

Yours  in  Christe, 

E.  Oant. 

To  my  lovinge  frende  M''.  Doctor  Hutton, 
Dearie  off  Yorke. 

(Seal  wanting.) 
(The  whole  in  the  Archbishop's  own  hand  ) 


LETTER  VI. 


CECYLL    LORD    BURGHLEY    TO    MR.  DEANE    OF    YORKE. 
August  12,  1577.     (558.) 

Good  Mr.  Deane,  I  most  hartely  thank  (you)  for  your  harty 
commendations,  which  this  berer  M"^.  Ramsden  delyveyred  me, 
with  a  token  in  gold,  being  the  monument  of  the  good  elect 
kyng  Edward  my  master,  whom  God  took  seasonably  for  his 
soule  to  be  a  kyng  in  heaven,  and  onseasonably  from  this  his 
erthely  kyngdom,  therby  blessing  hym,  and  scourgyng  vs.  God 
favor  vs  now  in  the  reigne  of  our  Soverayn  with  more  of  his 

*  Richard  Barnes,  Bishop  of  Carlisle,  was  elected  to  the  See  of  Durham, 
5  April,  1577  ;  and  his  successor  in  the  See  of  Carlisle  was  John  Mey,  Arch- 
deacon of  the  East  Riding,  in  the  Cathedral  of  York,  who  seems  to  have  been 
in  no  great  favour  with  Dean  Hutton  and  Sir  Thomas  Gaigravc.  For  a  memoir 
of  Sir  Thos.  Gargrave,  see  Lodge's  Illustrations  of  British  History,  i.  13U. 


58  CORRESPONDENCE,  ETC. 

marcy,  though  I  feare  our  offences  ar  gretar 

From  Buxton,  the  xii"'  of  August,  1577. 

Your  most  assured  loving  frend, 

W.  BuRGHLEY. 

God  contynew  his  graces  in  you,  by  which  your  hff  and  ac- 
tions ar  reported  very  good  of  all  your  neighhors  ;  and  in  sekyng 
to  reform  those  that  ar  ovt  of  the  waye,  the  ordinary  waye  to 
reduce  them  which  I  lieare  you  vse  is,  by  gentle  instruction  of 
them  first  to  se  and  fele  ther  palpable  errors,  and  so  to  prepare 
them  to  se  the  truth. 

To  my  very  louing  fFrend  M''.  Doctor  Hutton,  Deane 
of  the  CatlieJrall  Churche  at  Yorke. 

(The  whole  of  the  letter  in  Lord  Burghley's  own  hand.) 


LETTER  VII. 


GRYNDALL,    ARCHBISHOP    OF    CANTERBURY,    TO    DR.   HUTTON, 
DEAN    OF    YORK. 

2  Dec.  1577. 

Salutem  in  Ohristo  !  This  bringer  can  informe  you  some- 
thinge  off  my  state  bothe  for  my  healthe  off  my  bodye  and  other 
my  trobles."  Aboute  6  weeks  agoe,  and  so  on  further  tyll  the 
26  off  November,  I  was  putt  in  assured  hoape  off  libertie,  &c. 
Abowte  thatt  tyme  arose  a  sudeyn  contrarie  tempest,  which 
hadde  browghte  me  to  have  appeared  in  the  Starre  Chamber 
29  Novembris  last,  iff  God  had  nott  layed  me  up  2  dayes  be- 
fore off  myne  olde  disease  the  stoane.  By  thatt  occasion  my 
apparence  was  respitted,  and  I  now  remayne  as  a  man  in  sus- 
pense inter  s])em  metumque,  butt  yett  hoape  that  God  wille  in  the 
ende  turne  all  to  the  beste.  I  thanke  ye  for  your  manifold  sig- 
nifications off  your  goode  wille  towarde  me  and  myne.     I  praye 

*  The  Archbishop,  having  incurred  the  Queen's  displeasure  for  favouring  the 
system  of  Exercises  or  Prophesyings,  was  at  the  present  time  confined  to  his 
palace  at  Croydon  by  her  order      See  his  Life  by  Strype,  p.  219,  &c. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  59 

ye  be  goode  to  the  bringer  in   that  ye  maye  lawfullye,  com- 
mende  me  as  ye  kiiowe.     God  kepe  you.     2  December,  1577. 

Yom*s  in  Christe, 

E.G. 

To  my  lovinge  frende,  M^  Deane  off  Yorke. 

(The  whole  letter  Is  in  the  Archbishop's  hand-writing.) 


LETTER  VIII. 


THE    EARLE    OF    HUNTINGTON    TO    MR.  DEANE    OF    YORKE. 

Maie  20,  1578.     (872.) 

Salutem  in  Domino,  &c.  !  I  am  sorrye  to  vnderstand  of  your 
falle  and  harme  you  have  therbye,  but  I  trust  God  will  shorte- 
lye  restore  you  to  your  olde  good  state  agayne.  Of  my  Lord  of 
Canterburie  I  heare  nothyng  but  thys ;  I  wyll  sette  downe  the 
verrye  wordes  as  they  bee  wrytten  to  me  : — "  My  Lord  of  Can- 
"  terburie  dyd  stande  now  at  thys  present  vpon  hys  delyuerye 
"  by  the  good  meanes  of  M^  Vycechamberlyne,  and  now  at 
"  thys  present  the  bysshoppes  of  Durram  and  Yorke  have  wryt- 
"  tyn  to  hyr  Majesty  of  soche  sectes  and  puritanes  that  ys  in 
"  those  cuntryes,  that  hathe  made  a  staye  of  hys  delyuerance." 

Even  nowe  the  Lord  Archebishop  was  heare,  and  I  tolde  h}Tn 
a  peece  of  thys  matter,  but  sayde  no  worde  of  Canterburie,  and 
I  dyd  aske  hym  what  infection  he  founde  in  all  hys  dyoces,  espe- 
cyallye  for  puritanisme  as  they  tearme  yt.  He  aunsweryd,  that 
he  founde  none  to  offend  that  way,  neythyr,  sayth  he,  have  I 
wryttyn  any  thynge  thereof ;  but  in  my  letters  to  the  Queue, 
sayth  he,  I  dyd  wryte  that  a  younge  man  in  a  sermon  at  the 
assyses  dyd  sumwhat  straye,  but  he  hathe  been  before  me  and 
hathe  promysyd  to  repayre  the  faute,  etc.  Also  of  one  at  Hulle 
who  made  sum  scruple  at  sum  matters,  but  now  yealdeth  and 
promysyth  conformytee.  Of  other  matters  he  dyd  not  wryte,  but 
of  the  increasynge  of  the  papystes,  etc.  By  thys  I  see  som 
sparkes  have  floane  abrode.  Your  wry  tar  hathe  desyryd  me 
to  sent  hym  worde  what  ys  trew  touchinge  these  reaportes. 
And  now  by  warrante  from  my  Lord's  grace  I  may  saye  hys 
dyoces  ys  cleare  of  thys  faulte.     For  other  occuranttes  I  referre 


60  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

you  to  the  letter  inclosyd,  wlierof  I  dyd  imparte  the  laste  parte, 
as  I  was  dosyryd.  God  make  us  all  pure  in  hys  syghte  thorrowe 
Chryste,  and  confounde  all  poperye  and  counterfayte  gospellynge, 
etc.  And  so  I  commytte  you  to  the  Lord.  At  Yorke,  tliys  26 
of  May,  1578. 

Your  assured  frend  in  Domino, 

H.   HuNTYNGDON. 

(The  whole  letter  is  apparently  in  the  hand  of  the  Earl.  The  fly-leaf  of  the 
letter  is  torn  away,  ami  in  consequence  there  is  no  address  save  the  endorse- 
ment hy  Sir  Timothy  Button.) 

To  the  assemblie  at  Smalcald  her  Maiestie  hath  sent  certeine 
persons  to  dissuade  and  stay  the  proceedings,  &c.  D.  Humfrey 
of  Oxford,  D.  Wilson  of  Worcester,  D.  Still  of  Cambridge,  and 
D.  Hamond,  a  civilian,  ar  ajjpointed  for  this  purpose  ;  and,  if 
hast  had  not  required,  your  Deane  Mr.  Hutton  should  have 
bene  the  principall,  and  so  ought  he  to  have  bene  allowed. 
Grenewich,  xx  Maij,  1-578.^ 


LETTER  IX. 


GRYNDALL,    ARCHB.    CANT.     [tO    DOCTOR     MATTHEW    IIUTTON, 
DEAN    OF    YORK.] 

18  Feb.  1578-9. 

Salutem  in  Curisto  !  This  bringer  can  enforme  you  that  I  am 
(thanks  be  to  God  !)  in  reasonable  goode  healthe.  My  case  de- 
pendeth  longe,  as  ye  see,  and  some  repulse  otf  sute  latelye 
made  bathe  bene  geven  ;  [and  yett,  iff  a  man  maye  beleve  in 
courte  promesses,  I  was  att  no  tyme  so  neare  an  ende  off  my 
trobles  as  att  this  present.  Dotnini  voluntas  JiatJ^]  I  praye 
you  shew  favor  to  the  bringer  for  perfitinge  off  his  longe  travells. 

"  This  paragraph,  which  stands  upon  the  hack  of  the  half-sheet  in  a  different 
hand,  seems  to  he  an  extract  from  some  other  letter  of  an  earlier  date.  The 
compliment  here  paid  to  Dr.  Hutton,  seems  to  be  alluded  to  in  the  monumental 
inscription  in  memory  of  Sir  Timotliy,  his  son. — See  above,  p.  35. — Ed. 

^  "  Kcpe  this  to  your  selfe."  These  words  stand  in  the  margin  opposite  to 
the  paragraph  which  is  enclosed  in  brackets. 


CORBESPONDENCE,    ETC.  61 

S.  Peter  is  a  goocle  man,  and  lendcth  freelje  ;  the  marchanto 
allwayes  harpeth  apon  interest.  He  will  engage  all  to  S.  Peter 
or  some  off  his  deputies.  Surelye  the  thinge  will  proove  to  an 
vndonbted  beniffitte  bothe  publicke  and  private.  Yff  I  had 
remayned  with  you,  I  wolde  have  helped  him  in  this  case; 
especiallye  no  we  when  the  matter  is  growen  rype,  etc. 

Howe  the  worlde  goeth  here,  ye  shalle  heare  by  other  men.  I 
wolde  ye  hadde  a  goode  arrande  to  London,  that  I  mighte  see 
you.  I  thanke  you  for  my  poore  kinsfolkes  and  servants.  God 
kepe  you.     18  Feb.,  1578. 

E.  0.  tuus. 
To  my  lovinge  frcndc  M^  Dcane  off  Yorkc. 

(TIic  wliole  in  the  ArchLishop's  liaiul.) 

(Seal,    Cunlerhuj^y    impaling    Gi-indnll.) 


LETTER   X, 


THE    EARLE    OF    NORTHUMBERLAND'S    LETTER    TO    MR.  DEANE 

OF    YORK. 

Feb.  3,  1581.     (880.) 

Mr.  Dean,  I  do  understand  by  my  cosin  Cristofer  Vavasor, 
for  such  evidence  and  writings  as  concerneth  myne  inherytance 
remaning  within  your  treasorie  of  the  Cathedrall  church  of 
York,  that  you  and  the  Chapiter  there  ar  contented,  vpon  enye 
warrant  or  authorissment  frome  me,  to  deliver  them  to  such  as  I 
shall  appoinct.  Your  freindlie  freindshipp  in  this  matter  I  am  to 
accept  in  freindlie  manner,  and  to  geve  you  and  them  my  most 
hartie  thancks  for  the  same.  I  have  authorised  by  commission 
my  cosin  Cristofer  Vavasour  and  my  servant  Mychaell  Tharkeld 
to  call  of  you  for  theim,  and,  for  all  suche  wrytings  as  they  shall 
receive,  to  geve  theire  bill  indented  to  remaine  of  recorde  for 
your  dyschardg ;  praing  you  that  some  may  be  appointed  to  be 
redye  for  deliverye  of  them  when  they  shalbe  called  for.  In  so 
doing  you  shall  geve  me  occasion  to  requit  your  frendshipp  in 
this  matter   with   enie   pleasor   I   can.    And  so   with  my  very 


62  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

hartie  commendacions  I  byd  you  hartely  farewell.     Frome  my 
howse  at  Pet  worth,  the  third  of  Ffebruary,  1581. 
Your  very  loving  frend, 

H.  Northumberland. 

Sir,  As  I  have  occasione  to  geve  youe  my  harty  thankes  for 
this,  so  have  I  causse  to  render  vnto  youe  manny  mo  for  your 
frendly  good  wyll  in  all  causses  aportenynge  to  me,  wyche  I  wyll 
gladly  requitte  in  that  I  canne  do  for  youe.'^ 

To  my  vcrry  loving  frcind  M'.  Hutton,  the  Dean 
of  Yorke,  geue  these. 

(Seal  circular  :  apparently  a  rose  or  other  device  much  defaced.     Esperance.) 


LETTER  XI. 


VALENTINE  DALE  TO  THE  DEAN  AND  CHAPTER  OF  YORK. 
6  May,  1582. 

After  my  heartie  commendacions.  Theis  are  to  advertise 
you  that  her  Majestic,  being  moved  to  dispense  with  M^  Doctor 
Gibson  for  his  residence  in  your  Churche,  thought  it  strange  that 
he  should  be  abridged  of  any  commodotie,  serving  her  Majestic 
in  the  places  that  he  dothe  ;  and  therefore  her  hignes  was  verie 
willing  to  passe  her  dispensacion  in  suche  manner  and  with  such 
large  words  as  you  se,  signed  first  w""  her  Majesties  hande,  and 
synce  sealed  with  the  broade  scale,  with  as  ample  words  as  by 
lawe  maie  be  devised,  ex  certa  scientia  et  plenitudine  potestatis, 
which  are  clauses  of  the  greatest  force  that  are  in  the  lawe. 
Doctor  Gribson  hath  also  greate  fi-ends,  whose  credit  with  her 
Majestic  may  do  verie  muche  :  and  therefore  in  myne  opinion 
you  shall  doe  verie  well  to  use  him  favorablie,  and  to  enterprete 
her  Majesties  grante  as  beneficially  as  her  Majesties  meaninge 
was  at  the  tyme  of  the  graunting  thereof  with  suche  words  as 
therein  appereth  ;  which  are,  that  the  saide  Doctor  Gibson,  being 
present  or  absent,  shoulde  have  the  commodities  of  a  Canon 
residentiary  ;    w"^*"  thing  I  doubte  not  but  of  your  wisdomes  you 

®  This  postscript  is  the  Earl's  own  hand-writing. 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  63 

will  be  glad  to  doe.     And  thus  I  committ  you  unto  Almightie 
God.     At  the  Courte,  the  vi^"  of  May,  1582. 

Y"^  loving  frend, 

Valen.  Dalr.'° 
To  the  right  worshippfull  M"".  Deane  and  Chapter 
of  the  Church  of  York. 

(Armorial  Seal.) 


LETTER   XII. 

A    LETTER    FROM    DEAN     HUTTON    TO    THE    EARL    OF    HUNT- 
INGDON. 

8  May,  1582. 

My  most  humble  duitie  remembred  to  your  Honour,  &c.  M'. 
Doctor  Gibson  hath  obteined  a  disj^ensation  to  keepe  his  livinge  in 
our  church,  whereof  I  am  verie  gladd.  But  in  the  same  dispen- 
sation he  hath  obtained  another  dispensation  ;  that  he  beinge 
absent,  and  keeping  no  residence,  may  have  and  enjoye  all  the 
commodities  due  to  a  residentiarie  :  for  the  which  I  am  verie 
sorrie  ;  not  onelie  because  it  is  contrarie  to  our  statutes,  where- 
unto  we  are  all  sworne,  and  shall  be  taken  out  of  the  livinge  of 
the  residenciaries,  some  being  not  well  hable  to  spare  it  ;  but 
also  because  it  doth  open  a  window,  which  (if  it  be  not  speedelie 
shutt)  is  like  utterlie  to  overthrow  the  state  of  our  churche. 
We  think  that  her  Majesty's  meaninge  was,  that  he  should  enjoie 
his  livinge  hereafter  quietlie,  which  now  by  the  space  of  fyve  or 
six  yeares  he  hath  bene  in  some  feare  to  be  deprived  of;  and 
not  to  gyve  him  a  new  livinge  taken  furth  of  other  men''s  lyv- 
yngs ;  and  for  the  which  they  are  bound  to  keepe  residence  xxvi. 
weeks  yearlie  to  their  great  charge.  Yet,  because  we  love  quiet- 
ness and  hate  contention,  we  have  neither  joyned  nor  conferred 
v/ith  his  enemies  ;  but  have  sent  M^  Slater,  one  of  our  companie, 
to  my  Lord  his  Grace  of  Canterburie,  Doctor  Gibson'^s  good  Lord 
and  ours,  prayinge  him  to  make  some  quiet  end  betweene  him 
and  us,  becawse  we  wold  be  lothe  to  joyne  with  Doctor  Gibson's 

10  Master  of  Sherburii  Hospital  from  1584  to  1589. 


64  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

adversaries  against  hym.  And  my  humble  suit,  in  myne  owne 
name  and  in  the  name  of  the  Avhole  Churche,  unto  your  Honour 
is,  to  beseeche  you  that  you  wokl  be  a  meane  to  my  Lord  of 
Canterburye,  and  to  join  with  him  to  componde  the  matter, 
least  it  grow  to  some  extremitie  of  suit ;  which  thinge  I  have 
alwaies  hated.  Ffor  myne  owne  part,  I  coukl  be  content,  and 
so  I  know  wold  the  rest,  yt  were  referred  unto  yourselfe  to  heare 
and  determine  at  your  cominge  into  the  country,  yf  my  Lord  his 
Grace  of  Canterburie  doe  not  now  end  it  by  your  Lordshipp's 
good  meanes,  as  we  hope  he  will.  We  have  written  to  my  Lord 
Treasurar,  and  to  Sir  Francis  Walsingham,  beseechinge  them  to 
have  a  speciall  care,  and  to  be  meanes,  that  suche  like  suites 
be  not  graunted  hereafter,  which  tend  to  the  decaye  and  mine 
of  the  churches  of  the  old  fundation.  Yff  the  matter  be  not 
quietlie  ended,  we  make  no  doubte  but  to  make  good  proofe 
to  the  Lords  of  the  Counsell,  that  so  muche  of  the  dispensa- 
tion as  is  hurtfull  to  the  churche,  and  taketh  from  other  men, 
and  gyveth  unto  hym  which  he  never  hadd  before,  did  precede 
upon  wronge  information.  M^  Doctor  Gibson  is  my  good  frend, 
and  I  have  alwaies  wished  him  well,  and  verie  lothe  wold  I 
be  to  joyne  with  his  enemies ;  which  had  bene  done  before  this 
time  yf  it  could  have  bene  compassed.  And  therefore  am  I  so 
earnest  with  your  Lordship  that  the  matter  may  be  stayed,  now 
at  the  begyninge.  Thus,  beseechinge  God  to  send  your  Ho- 
nour and  my  good  Ladie  shortlie  into  the  countrie,  I  take  my 
leave.     From  Yorke,  the  viij^*"  of  Maye,  1582. 

Your  Honour's  in  Christ  to  comaunde, 

Matth.  Hutton. 

To  the  Right  Honorable  his  especiall  good  Lord,  therle  of 
Huntingdon,  Lord  prsesident  of  her  Majesty's  Coun- 
sell in  the  North  parts. 

(A  duplicate-Signature  of  the  Dean.    Small  round  seal,  an  open  book,  inscribed 
with  the  words  Odor  Vit^,  and  the  circumscription  Spiritus  Gladius.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  65 


LETTER  XIII. 

LETTER    FROM    DEAN    HUTTON    AND    THE   CHAPTER   OF    YORK,  TO 
SIR    FRANCIS  WALSINGHAM. 

10  May,  1582. 

OuK  humble  duitie  remembred  to  your  Honour.  M"^.  Doctor 
Gibson  of  late  hath  bene  in  some  danger  to  be  deprived  of  a 
dignitie  and  prsebend  which  he  hath  enjoyed  now  by  the  space 
of  eight  years  in  our  churche  ;  wherbie  he  hath  bene  compelled 
to  make  suite  unto  her  Majestie  for  a  dispensation  to  keepe  it, 
and  hath  obteined  yt.      The  dispensation  conteineth  two  points. 

First,  that  he  shall  quietlie  enjoie  his  preebend  and  dignitie 
thoughe  he  be  absent  and  not  qualified  accordinge  to  the  fun- 
dation  therof.  Secondlie,  that  he,  beinge  absent  and  doing  no 
duitie  of  a  residenciarie,  shalbe  counted  and  reputed  as  present 
and  as  a  residenciarie,  and  have  suche  porcion  as  a  residenciarie, 
which  is  a  new  livinge  taken  furth  of  the  residenciaries,  for  the 
which  they  ar  bound  to  keepe  residence  in  the  churche  yearlie 
xxvi  weeks :  which  latter  part  of  his  dispensation  we  think  did 
procede  of  wronge  information  ;  not  onlie  becawse  it  is  contrarie 
to  our  statutes,  and  hurtfull  to  the  state  of  the  churche  and  pore 
men  that  be  now  residentiaries,  but  also  dothe  open  a  windowe 
(as  we  take  it)  to  the  overthrow  of  the  good  estate  of  our 
churche.  Notwithstandinge,  becawse  our  churche  doth  not  love, 
but  hate,  contention,  we  have  sent  M^  Slater,  one  of  our  com- 
panie,  to  our  especiall  good  Lordes,  the  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
burie  and  the  Erie  of  Huntingdon,  our  good  Lord  President, 
beseechinge  them  to  deale  with  M"".  Doctor  Gibson  for  the 
quietinge  of  the  matter;  which  we  hope  they  will  doe,  becawse 
they  beare  a  singular  favour,  not  onlie  to  our  churche,  but  also 
to  M'.  Gibson  and  everie  of  us.  In  the  mane  time,  we  ar  in 
humble  wise  to  beseeche  your  Honour,  even  for  the  love  you 
beare  unto  the  Ghospell,  to  have  a  speciall  regard  to  such  dis- 
pensations as  tend  to  the  hinderance  of  preachinge  and  hospi- 
talitie  ;  for,  if  this  example  should  be  folowed,  the  good  estate 
of  churches  of  the  old  fundation  wold  sone  come  to  decaye  and 
ruine.     Thus,  beseechinge  God  longe  to  blesse  yow,  to  the  com- 


66  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

forthe  of  his  Churclie  and  her  Majestie's  service,  we  take  our 
leave.     From  Yorke,  the  x*''  of  Maye,  1582. 

Your  Honour's  in  Christ  to  comaunde, 

Matth.  Hutton. 
Will*'m  Palmer. 
Geo.  Slater. 
Edm.  Bunny. 
Chris.  Lyndley. 
John  Bukk. 

To  the  Right  Honorable  S''  Francis  Walsinghuni, 
Knight,  Prineipall  Sccretarie  to  her  Majestic. 

(A  duplicate  letter,  signed  by  the  parties.) 


LETTER  XIV. 

GRYNDALL,  ARCHBYSHOP  OF  CANTERBURIE,  [tO  DOCTOR  HUTTON, 
DEAN    OF    YORK.] 

19  May,  1582. 

Salutem  in  Chrtsto  !  Yf  I  hadd  not  this  daye  hen  trohled 
with  muche  writinge  and  some  husines  of  great  weight,  I  wolde 
have  written  to  you  my  particuler  letter  at  more  length  eoncern- 
ynge  Doctor  Gihson's  case  ;  hut  I  praie  you  heare  with  me  for  this 
tyme,  and  for  a  few  daies  more,  till  Doctor  Gihson  come  downe, 
and  at  his  comyinge  I  truste  to  have  better  leasure  and  quyet- 
nes  to  write  my  mynde  in  some  thinge  more  at  large  unto  you. 
I  have  written  a  general  1  letter  to  you  and  to  the  Chapter, 
which  I  praie  you  to  accejit  well  of,  and  not  to  judge  hastelie 
before  the  tyme.  So  I  take  my  leave,  and  commendinge  you  to 
the  grace  of  Godd.     From  Lambeth,  this  xix"'  of  Maye,  1582. 

Yours  in  Christe, 

E.  Cant. 

To  my  verie  lovinge  ffrende,  Mr.  Doctor  Hutton, 
Deane  of  Yorke. 

(In  this  letter,  the  signature  only  is  in  the  hand-writing  of  the  Archbishop,  and 
the  seal  is  partly  gone.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  67 


LETTER  XV. 


GRYNDALL,  ARCIIB.  CANTERBURY,   [tO   THE    DEAN   AND   CHAPTER 

OF    YORK.] 

19  May,  1582. 

After  my  verle  hartie  commendacions.  Whereas  some  matter 
of  difference  hath  growen  of  late  betwene  you  and  M^  Doctor 
Gibson  concernynge  a  graunte  obtayned  by  him  of  her  Majestic 
for  enioyinge  the  profitts  of  residence  within  your  churche  as 
well  absente  as  presente,  I  doe  understande,  aswell  by  join- 
owne  letters  to  me  directed,  as  by  the  reporte  and  commission 
of  M"^.  Slater  and  M^  Lyndlie  your  mandatories,  that  you  are 
contented  to  referre  the  said  controversie  or  difference  to  my 
order,  and  in  suche  sorte  as  the  matter  shall  goe  no  furder.  I 
hartelie  thanke  you  for  the  truste  and  confidence  which  you  re- 
pose in  me,  and  wolde  be  sorie  to  geve  you  any  cause  to  the 
eontrarie ;  for  I  love  your  churche  well  in  generalle,  and  wishe 
well  unto  everie  one  of  you  in  particuler.  And  notwithstand- 
inge  the  orderinge  and  determynacion  of  the  matter  aforesaid 
nowe  in  question  Is  symplie  committed  vnto  me  by  consente  of 
bothe  partes,  yet  I  have  learned  partelie  by  myne  owne  expe- 
rience, and  partelie  by  the  experience  of  other  notable  persons 
which  have  ben  more  experte  in  suche  cases  then  I  have  ben, 
not  to  sett  downe  in  suche  cases  any  precise  or  absolute  order 
withowt  the  good  likinge  and  assent  of  bothe  the  parties : 
wherefore,  for  your  better  satisfaccion  in  this  behalf,  I  will  sende 
downe  Doctor  Gibson  to  you,  betwene  this  and  Whitsontyde, 
to  treat  with  you  in  reasonable  and  frendlie  order  for  a  flnall 
ende  of  this  difference ;  which  if  it  may  be  obteyned  at  the  first 
by  your  mutuall  consents  in  suche  sorte  as  shalbe  by  him  moved 
and  declared  unto  you,  and  here  thought  by  divers  learned  men 
agreable  to  lawe  and  not  unreasonable,  I  shalbe  verie  gladd.  And 
if  It  shall  chaunce  that  the  condlcions  offered  by  the  said  Doctor 
Gibson  shall  not  be  lyked  of  you,  I  will  take  suche  further  order 
with  the  said  Doctor  Gibson  when  he  cometh  downe,  that  he 
shall  offer  you  other  condlcions  which  ye  can  not  In  reason  mis- 
like.     And  so,  praienge  you  to   beare  with  patience  a  little  re- 

f2 


68  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

spite  of  tyme  for  a  few  dales,  I  promise  you,  as  I  have  clone  to 
your  deputies  M".  Lyndlye  and  M"".  Slater,  that  I  will  make  a 
quyet  ende  of  this  controversie.  And  therefore  I  have  willed 
them  not  to  deliver  those  letters  which  they  hadd  from  you  to 
divers  honorahle  personages,  because  I  wolde  have  the  matter 
to  goe  no  further,  as  thinkinge  my  self  to  have  sufficient  com- 
mission from  you  by  vertue  of  your  letters  so  to  doe.  So  I  take 
my  leave,  and  hartelie  comraende  you  to  the  grace  of  Godd. 
From  Lambeth  this  xix"'  of  Maye,  1582. 

Yours  in  Christe, 

E.  Cant. 

To  my  vcric  lovingc  fFrends  M'.  Doctor  Hutton,  Deanc  of  Yoikc, 
and  to  tlio  rest  of  the  Chapter  of  the  same  chmche. 

(Signature  of  the  Archbishop,  and  armorial  seal.) 


LETTER  XVL 

THE    ARCHBISHOP    OF    CANTERBURY    TO    THE    DEAN    OF    YORK. 
26  May,  1582. 

Salutem  in  Christo  !  Accordinge  unto  my  promise  made  unto 
you  and  the  Chapter,  I  have  sente  downe  M".  Doctor  Gibson, 
bringer  hereof,  to  make  a  finall  ende  of  the  difference  betwene 
you  and  him  concernyng  the  matter  of  residence.  And  what- 
soever I  write  unto  you  in  this  letter,  I  will  praye  you  that  it 
maye  be,  as  the  olde  terme  is,  sub  sigillo  confessionis,  and  not 
to  be  imparted  to  any  creature,  unlesse  you  your  self  first  have 
a  good  lykinge  of  the  motion  herein  by  me  made,  and  be  also 
assured  that  your  Chapter  will  have  the  lyke ;  ffor  I  wolde  be 
sorye  that  any  motion  made  by  me  sholde  come  to  your  Chapter 
and  there  suffer  repulse.  Therefore  I  have  chosen  privately 
and  frendlye  to  deale  with  you,  who  is  the  headd  of  the  Chapter 
and  knoweth  verie  well  the  disposition  of  the  reste.  After  I 
hadd  received  your  letters  of  commission  to  arbitrate  the  matter 
of  residence  aforesaid,  I  thought  it  verye  requisite  first  to  un- 
derstande  of  what  validitie  M\  Doctor  Gibson's  graunte  was  by 
lawe,  and  for  that  purpose  I  charged  Doctor  Drewrye  and 
Doctor  Awbrey  that  they  sholde,  withowt  respect  of  persons, 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  69 

geve  me  their  opynions  in  vvritinge  ;  which  they  dyd  under  there 
hands  in  a  letter,  the  copie  of  which  letter  I  sende  unto  you 
enclosed  herein.  After  that,  I  fell  to  treatye  with  M'.  Slater 
and  M"^.  Lyndley  to  understande  the  determynacion  of  you  and 
the  Chapter,  what  you  wolde  geve  M\  Gybson  in  yerely  pencion 
till  suche  tyme  as  he  entered  actuall  residence  ;  nothinge  dowtinge 
hut  they  hadd  sufficient  commission  and  instruccions  to  geve 
answere  in  that  matter.  They  offered  first  xx"^  nobles  a  yere, 
and  after  that  x'',  and  at  length  with  muche  adoe  they  came 
to  xx"^  markes  a  yere,  which  I  thought  was  to  litle,  and  Doc- 
tor Gibson  did  utterly  myslike  of  it  ;  and  I  then  thought  as 
nowe  I  will  utter  my  mynde  frankly  unto  you,  that  in  suche 
a  case  forty  markes  a  yere,  for  a  yere,  two,  or  three,  till 
he  entered  into  actuall  residence,  was  litle  enough,  the  par- 
ticuler  porcions  of  your  commodities  of  th^  residensarye  (which 
are  to  me  reasonably  well  knowen)  beinge  considered.  But 
findinge  your  deputies  not  willinge  to  goe  any  further  than 
xx"*  markes,  and  peradventure  not  havinge  commission  to  doe 
any  otherwise,  I  dyd  not  name  any  summe  unto  them,  but 
differred  the  matter  till  Doctor  Gibson's  commynge,  as  you 
knowe.  Nowe,  good  M".  Deane,  if  you  can  condiscende  to  this 
fortye  markes  for  a  yere  or  two  till  Doctor  Gibson  can  be  better 
provided  and  furnished  for  residence,  and  be  assured  that  your 
"Chapter  withowt  difficultie  will  a.ssente  unto  the  same,  I  praye 
you  move  it  to  your  Chapter  ;  which  if  you  and  they  doe  gTaunte, 
I  shall  take  it  in  verie  thankfull  parte,  as  done  the  rather  at  my 
requeste.  But  if  you  fynde  either  any  scruple  in  your  self,  or 
thinke  there  wilbe  difficultie  in  the  Chapter  in  the  grauntinge  of 
the  same,  then  I  praye  you  of  all  frendshi2)p  that  this  my  letter 
maye  be  utterlye  suppressed,  and  not  divulged  to  any  creature. 
And,  that  beinge  done,  I  have  taken  order  with  Doctor  Gibson 
that  he  shall  enter  into  a  new  treatye  with  you  particulerlye, 
which  maye  afterwarde  be  communycated  to  your  Chapter, 
which  also  I  truste  wilbe  thought  bothe  of  you  and  them  verye 
reasonable.  And  thus,  takinge  my  leave  for  this  tyme,  I  hartely 
commende  you  unto  the  grace  of  Godd.  From  Croydon,  this 
xxvi"'  of  Maye,  1582,  Yours  in  Christe,  as  of  olde, 

E.  Cant. 

To  my  verie  lovinge  ffreiide  Mr.  Doctor  Hutton,  Deane  of  York. 

(The  signature  only  in  the  hand-writing  of  tlic  Arclibit^hop.) 


70  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  XVII. 

ARCHBISHOP    GRINDALL    TO    THE     DEAN    OF    YORK. 
26  May,  1582. 

Salutem  in  Ohristo  !  M^  Deane,  I  have  taken  order  with 
M*^,  Doctor  Gibson,  that  if  the  request  of  my  former  letter,  by 
him  nowe  sente  and  unto  yon  at  his  first  conference  with  you  de- 
livered, were  of  you  any  waye  mislyked,  or  that  you  dowted 
any  thinge  of  the  free  and  willinge  assent  of  your  Chapter  with- 
out any  difficultie  thereunto,  that  then  he  shall  deliver  unto  you 
this  my  seconde  letter ;  wherein  I  signifie  unto  you,  that,  the  cause 
of  your  mislikinge  standinge  as  afore,  I  have  concluded  with 
Doctor  Gibson  that  he  shall  offer  unto  you  and  your  Chapter  to 
enter  into  ordinarye  residence,  and  bear  all  charges  for  the  same 
as  is  requysite,  notwithstandinge  that  the  said  entrie  into  resi- 
dence at  this  tyme  will  be  verie  muche  to  his  hinderance.  And 
so  I  truste  bothe  all  inconvenyances  alledged  by  your  letters  and 
deputies  shalbe  clearly  removed,  and  the  desire  of  you  and  your 
Chapter  declared  unto  me  by  your  said  deputies  shall  be  fully 
satisfied,  and  so  all  controversies,  I  truste,  perfectlie  ended. 
And  I  shall  furder  praye  you  that  my  former  letter  at  this  prse- 
sente  delyvered  by  M^  Doctor  Gibson  may  be  immediately,  upon 
the  receipte  of  this,  toren  in  pieces  and  utterlye  destroyed  in  the 
sight  of  the  said  Doctor  Gibson,  because  I  wolde  not  have  any 
matter  of  diversitie  in  opynion  betwene  you,  your  Chapter,  and 
me,  to  be  extante  under  my  hande  ;  not  onely  hartely  praienge 
you,  but  also  as  it  were  adjuringe  you,  not  to  revele  the  contents 
of  my  said  letter  to  any  boddye.  So,  referringe  the  rest  unto 
M"^.  Doctor  Gibson*'s  owne  reporte,  once  againe  I  take  my  leave, 
and  commende  you  with  all  my  harte  to  the  grace  of  Godd. 
From  Croydon,  this  xxvi"'  of  May,  1582. 

Yours  in  Christe,  as  of  olde ;  remayning  still  blynde,  with 
fFather  Tobyas,  and  yet  hoping  assuredlye  by  the  grace  of  Godd 
to  recover  sight  againe,  as  he  dyd  in  tyme. 

E,   Cant. 

To  my  verie  lovinge  ffrendc,  M''.  Doctor  Hutton,  Deane  of  Yorke. 
(Signature  of  tlic  Archbishop.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  71 

LETTER  XVIII. 

LADY  HUNTINGTON  TO  MR.  DEANE  OF  YORKE. 

S''*^'-  22,  1582.  (870.) 

Good  M^  Deane,  Alltliowgli  I  have  not  writen  to  you  since  mi 
coming  from  Yorke  about  the  matter  I  had  to  speak  with  mi 
brother  of  Lecester  of,  because  I  have  bin  so  often  coming  doune 
mi  self,  which  I  have  bin  ever  staied  bi  one  occasion  or  other ; 
and  nowe  that  mi  Lord  will  not  lett  me  come  doune  before 
Chrismus,  I  will  not  defere  any  longer  to  lett  you  knowe  I  did 
remember  that  matter  presently  upon  mi  comming  up,  of  whom 
I  had  so  good  an  awnswere,  with  so  manie  good  words,  and  of 
his  verie  good  opinion  of  you,  as  in  truth  I  was  most  glad  to 
here.  Of  this  matter  I  wold  have  writen  to  you  longe  before 
this  time,  but  that  I  was  in  good  hope  to  have  bin  at  Yorke  mi 
self,  and  so  to  have  told  you  what  I  had  done  in  that  same  ;  but 
that  can  not  be  so  sone  as  in  deed  I  do  wish  and  desire  it :  and 
therfore  I  thought  it  good  to  treble  you  with  this  mi  bad  scrib- 
ling,  though  it  hath  ben  long  a  cominge,  that  you  male  knowe 
I  was  not  forgetfuU  of  you.  I  am  to  geve  you  great  thanks  for 
my  aunt  Oomten,  and  the  rest  of  mi  wemen,  whom  [I]  perceive 
you  have  bin  trobled  with  all.  And  so,  good  M"".  Deane,  I  must 
hastely  bid  you  fare  well,  and  wish  there  were  any  thing  here 
I  might  do  you  plesure  in :  you  shuld  finde  me  verie  redie  to  do 
it.    From  Stoke,  the  22  of  October,  1582. 

Your  verie  frend  in  the  Lorde, 

K.  Huntingdon. 


LETTER  XIX. 


THE    BYSHOP    OF    WORSTRE,    ELECT    CANT.,    TO    MR.  DEANE 
OF    YORK. 

17  Sept.  1583. 

Salutem  in  Christo  !   I  hartelie  thangk  you,  good  M'.  Dene, 
for  your  frendlie  letters,  where  in  you  shoe  that  assured  good 


72  CORRESrONDENCE,    ETC. 

wyll  which  I  have  ever  fownd  in  you  towards  me.  The  burden 
layed  uppon  me  ys  verie  heavie  and  great  ;  yet,  bycause  yt  ys 
God's  owne  doeing  who  hath  wrogght  yt  in  her  Majestie's  hart, 
my  trust  ys  that  he  wyll  also  furnish  me  with  gyfts  and  graces 
necessarie,  that  I  may,  without  faynting,  performe  that  whereunto 
he  hath  so  called  me ;  and  the  rather  thorowe  your  good  prayers, 
whereof  I  assuer  my  self.  I  have  not  hard  anie  thing  of  you  or 
M^  Cheke  touching  that  matter,  nether  wyll  I  heleave  yt  yf  yt 
shold  be  reported,  knoweng  you  bothe  so  well  as  I  doe.  For 
your  nephew,  I  wyll  be  glad  to  do  the  best  I  can,  as  occasion 
shal  serve.  To  stay  you  there,  I  wyll  do  my  endevor,  onlesse  yt 
be  for  some  better  preforment :  but  assuer  j^our  self  that  I  wyll 
not  cease  to  labor  you  frome  thens,  yf  yt  may  be  to  such  a  place 
as  wyll  countervale  that,  and  wherein  you  may  doe  more  good. 
Towching  the  last  poynt  of  your  letters,  nothing  shalbe  omytted 
that  lieth  in  me  :  yt  ys  a  wonde  in  dede,  God  grauhte  yt  may  be 
healed.  Her  Majestic  ys  moste  gi-atiouslie  affected  therein,  and 
there  ys  hope  to  bring  yt  to  passe  :  there  are,  God  be  thangked, 
manie  learned  and  worthie  men,  so  that  there  lacketh  no  choise ; 
I  besech  God  that  such  resj^ect  may  be  had  to  there  pneferment 
as  the  Church  may  be  furnished  with  worthie  men,  and  others 
thereby  encoraged.  Thus,  with  my  hartie  commendations,  I 
committ  you  to  the  tuition  of  Almyghtie  God.  Frome  Lam- 
beth, the  17  of  September,  158-3. 

Yours  as  hys  owne, 

Jo.  WiGORN.     Elect.  Cant.'' 

To  my  assuered  and  loving  frend,  Mr,  Doctor  Huttcn,  Dene  of  York. 

(Seal  wanting.     In  the  Archbishop's  own  hand.) 


"  John  Whitgift,  Bishop  of  Worcester  from  1577,  nominated  Archhisliop  of 
Canterbury,  Aug.  14,  1583,  elected  by  tlic  Dean  and  Chapter  seven  days  after- 
wards, and  confirmed  on  the  23rd  of  September  following.     He  died  in  l(JU3-4. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  73 


LETTER  XX. 

LETTER    FROM    ABP.    WHITGIFT    TO    DEAN     HUTTON,    OCCASIONED 
BY    THE    DISPUTE    BETWEEN    HIM    AND    ABP.    SANDYS. 

23  August,  1586. 

Salutem  in  Cheisto  !  I  am  verie  sorie  that  it  is  no  better 
betwixt  my  Lord  of  York^"  and  you,  and  that  his  bitternesse 
continueth  still  against  you,  which  I  doe  also  perceave  by  his 
owne  lettres  written  to  my  self.  I  pray  you  consider,  for  the 
redeeming  of  peace  and  quietfiesse,  and  the  avoiding  of  publick 
offense,  whether  it  were  not  better  for  you  and  the  rest  to  yeeld 
unto  him  in  one  or  both  his  patents.  E  duohus  malis^  ^c.  But  I 
referre  the  consideration  hereof  to  yourself.  Many  thinges  are  to 
be  done  and  suffered  for  peace  sake.  His  Grace  writeth  unto 
mee,  that  you  and  your  frendes  geve  it  out  howe  well  you  were 
used  at  my  handes,  howe  sure  a  fi'ende  I  am  unto  you,  and  what 
favour  you  found  with  Lordes,  &c.,  and  many  other  thinges.  But 
I  knowe  theis  are  but  reportes  brought  unto  him  by  suche  as 
could  bee  content  to  have  you  at  oddes  still.  For  myne  owne 
parte,  I  wish  you  bothe  so  well,  that,  to  make  you  frendes  and  to 
reconcile  you  together,  I  would  bee  content,  yf  it  so  pleased  her 
Majesty,  to  ryde  from  Croydon  to  York,  yea,  to  Barwick,  or 
fyve  tymes  furder.  Vale  in  Christo  !  From  my  house  at  Croy- 
don, this  xxiij*''  of  August  1586. 

Your  assured  lovinge  frende, 

Jo.  Cantuar. 

To  the  right  worshippful  my  verie  loving  frende,  M''.  Doctor  Hutton, 
Dean  of  York. 

(Seal  wanting.     Signature  only  in  the  hand-writing  of  the  Arclddshop.) 


Edwin  Sandys,  Archbishop  of  York  from  1576  to  1588. 


74  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

LETTER  XXI. 

MANNERS    THE    EARLE  OF  RUTTLAND    TO    MR.  DEANE    OF  YORKE. 

November  2,  [1586.]     (877.) 

Mk.  Deane,  I  find  by  my  brother  that  he  is  greately  behokl- 
inge  unto  you,  for  the  which  I  am  requested  to  yeld  you  my  most 
harty  thankes  :  and  that  I  meane  to  do  by  thes  presents  after 
the  best  and  hartyest  sort  that  I  cau  ;  assuring  you,  that  if  you 
shall  have  need  to  use  my  frendshippe  for  yourself  or  any  of 
yours,  you  shall  find  me  as  willinge  to  performe  your  request  as 
far  as  in  me  lyeth  as  any  other  shalbe  who  soever  you  shall 
make  most  reckoning  off.  And  so,  ending  with  my  moste  harty 
thankes  one  agayn  repeted  for  your  favor  to  my  brother,  I  com- 
mitt  you  to  his  tuicion  who  can  best  defende  us  all.  From  Bel- 
voyr,  this  2^  of  November. 

Your  assured  loving  frend, 

E.  EUTLAND.^'' 
To  my  verie  lovingc  frend  M"".  Dcanc  of  Yoike. 

(In  the  Earl's  own  hand.     Imperfect  seal  of  arms.) 


LETTER  XXIL 

JOHN  MANNERS,  EARL    OF    RUTLAND,    TO    THE    DEANE    OF    YORK. 

Maie  4,  [1587.]     (879.) 

My  good  gostly  father,  for  so  I  must  ever  terme  you,  assure 
yourselfe  I  am  your  trewe  frend.  You  are  one  I  have  ever  both 
reverenced  and  derely  loved,  and  I  pray  you  pray  for  me  that 
God  will  blesse  me  with  his  grace  and  fath  in  Cryste,  as  I  may 
folowe  the  example  of  that  godly  and  noble  well  lerned  man  my 
brother,  whoe  mayd  the  godlyeste  end  that  ever  man  dyd,  with 
the  notablest  protestatyon  of  his  fath  in  Jesue  Cryste,  to  whose 

'^  Edward  Manners,  Earl  of  Rutland,  who  died  in  the  beginning  of  the  fol- 
lowing year. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  75 

costody  I  leve  you,  with  my  herty  comendacions  to  your  godly 
wyfe.     At  my  house  by  Ivy  brydge,  this  4'*'  of  Maye. 

Your  fast  frende  in  Cryste,  and  faithfull,  whyles  I  lyve 

in  the  world, 
Jhon  Rutland.^^ 

Comend  me  to  my  Lord  of  Huntingdon,  and  my  good  ver- 
tuose  Lady,  that  is  a  most  honourable  woman. 

To  my  good  gostly  fatlier  the  Dane  of  York,  at  Thornton. 

(Entirely  in  the  hand-writing  of  the  Earl.) 


LETTER  XXIIL 

J.   MANNERS,    EARLE    OF    RUTLAND,    TO    MR.  DEANE    OF    YORKE. 

Aug.  29,  1587.     (878.) 

My  good  gostly  father,  I  cold  not  but  by  this  berer  salute 
you  and  geve  you  thanks  for  him,  for  I  perceave  by  hym  howe 
bownd  he  is  unto  you  ;  but  I  fynd  you  alwayes  my  trewe  frend 
in  lovyng  those  that  love  me  :  and  assuer  your  selfe  of  my  love, 
for  you  shall  ever  fynd  it  to  you  most  assured.  And  so  I  leave 
you  to  the  tuityon  of  the  Lord  Jesus,  whoe  kepe  us  both  in  his 
ifeare.     At  the  Spytell  besyd  Newarke,  this  29"'  Auguste,  1587. 

Your  constant  frend  ever, 

Jhon  Rutland. 

To  my  very  assured  frend  M"".  Deane  of  Yorke,  at  Yorke. 

(The  whole  letter  in  the  Earl's  own  hand.) 


'^  John  Manners,  fourth  Earl  of  Rutland  of  his  name,  succeeded  to  the  title 
in  the  29th  of  Elizab.  upon  the  death  of  his  brother  Edward,  and  he  himself 
died  in  1587. 


76  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  XXIV. 

>'  A  MANDAMUS  FROM  THE  QUEANE  TO  THE  DEANE  AND  CHAP- 
TER OF  YORKE,  FOR  A  LEASE  OF  THE  PARSONAGE  OF  BYSHOP 
BURTON    TO    SIR    ED.  HASTINGS. 

10  June,  1588. 
Elizabeth  R.  By  the  Queeiie. 

Trusty  and  welbeloved,  we  greete  you  well.  Understanding 
that  the  parsonage  of  Bisshoppe  Burton  in  our  countie  of  York, 
belonging  to  you,  is  at  this  present  in  leasse  for  certain  yeeres 
yet  unexpired,  and  being  desirous  to  be  gratified  at  your  hand 
with  a  leasse  of  the  same  to  be  made  unto  our  self,  yet  not  with- 
out such  composicion  unto  you  to  be  yeelded  as  ye  shall  reason- 
ably demaunde ;  we  have  bene  pleased  to  write  these  our  own 
speciall  letters  unto  you  heerin,  which  we  doubte  not  but  ye  will 
so  regarde  as  becomith  you,  and  as  our  expectation  is.  We  doo 
therfore  require  yow  that,  assembling  your  selves  forthwith  in 
Chapter,  ye  will  make  a  leasse  of  the  abovesaid  parsonage,  with 
the  appurtenaunces  therunto  belonging,  as  the  same  are  now 
'  holdeii  of  you,  unto  our  self  for  xxxj  yeeres,  to  begyn  imme- 
diately after  the  determination  of  the  yeeres  that  remayn  yet 
unexpired,  reserving  to  you  and  your  successours  the  yeerly 
rents,  under  the  accustomed  covenants.  And  the  same  leasse 
in  due  and  sufficient  form  of  lawe  made,  and  confirmid  under 
your  common  scale,  we  require  you  to  send  unto  us  by  our  wel- 
belovid  servant  Sir  Edward  Hastings  knight,  who  we  have  pur- 
posely appointed  to  deale  with  you  heerin,  both  for  a  present 
fyne  to  be  yeelded  unto  you,  and  for  a  covenant  allso  to  be  in- 
sertid  in  the  leasse,  that  every  xxj  yeeres  tlier  shall  be  given  by 
us  and  our  assigne  unto  you  and  your  successours  one  yeere's 
rent  for  a  fyne.  Your  conformities  heerunto  we  will  take  in 
very  thankfull  parte,  to  be  shewed  toAvard  you  as  fitt  occasion 
may  be  therunto  ministred.  Gyven  under  our  Signett  at  our 
Mannor  of  Grenewich  the  tenth  day  of  June,  1588,  in  the  thir- 
tith  year  of  our  raigne.  Windebank. 

To  our   trusty  and  wclbclovid  the   Dcanc  and 
Cliaptcr  of  our  Cathedrall  Church  of  York. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  77 


LETTER  XXV. 

SIR   FRANCIS    WALSINGHAM   TO   DR.  HUTTON,  BISHOP  OF  DURHAM. 

18  Nov.  1589. 

After  my  hartie  commendations  to  your  Lordship.  Doctor 
Dale^^  beyng  this  last  night  departed  this  lyfe,  I  thought  good  to 
gyve  your  Lordship  present  advertisement  thereof,  hecawse  the 
Hospital!  of  Sherborne  therby,  as  I  take  it,  by  vertue  of  the  late 
Acte  of  parlament^*^  is  fallen  to  your  gyfte  ;  which  I  wishe  be- 
stowed by  you  uppon  a  learned  preacher  and  good  man,  that 
may  by  doctrine  and  hospitalitie  do  good  in  those  parts.^^  And 
so  I  committ  your  Lordship  to  God.  From  the  Court,  this 
xviij**"  of  November,  1589. 

Your  Lordship's  assured  loving  friend, 

Fra  :  Walsingham. 
The  Bushoppe  of  Duresme. 

To  my  verie  good  Lord  and  frend  the  Bushopp  of  Duresme. 

(The  signature  an  autograph.) 


LETTER  XXVI. 

LORD    BURGHLEY    TO    MY    LORD    OF    DURESME. 

Aug.  21,  1590.     (557.) 

After  my  vearie  hartie  comraendacions  to  your  Lordship.  I 
have  received  your  Lordship's  lettre,  whearebie  youe  move  mee 
to  graunt  to  your  dawghter,  the  widowe  of  M"".  D.  Slater,  one 

'*  For  an  account  of  Dr.  Valentine  Dale,  see  Hutchinson's  Durham,  i.  594  ; 
and  Surtees,  vol.  i. 

'6  27  Eliz.  1584,  cap.  15. 

^^  Bishop  Hutton  conferred  the  appointment  upon  his  nephew  Robert  Hut- 
ton,  tutor,  and  a  senior  Fellow  of  Trinity  Coll.  Camh.,  who  exchanged  the 
preferment  with  Dr.  Bellamy,  prebendary  of  Durham.  That  the  Bishop  in- 
curred the  Queen's  displeasure  by  thus  disposing  of  the  Hospital,  appears  from 
a  letter  addressed  by  him  to  the  Lord  Treasurer  on  the  30th  of  March  1590, 
printed  by  Strype,  Annals,  iv.  p.  15. 


78  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

of  the  Prebendaries  of  the  churche  of  Yorke,  latehe  decessed, 
the  wardshippe  of  hir  child,  with  the  custodie  of  the  land,  and 
patronage  of  the  rectorie  of  Bainton,  which  it  semeth  he  had  pur- 
chased, whearein  I  shall  be  verie  well  contented  to  pleisure  jonr 
Lordship  ;  althowgh  theire  hath  been  suite  made  unto  mee  both 
by  M^  Osborne  of  the  eschecquer  for  the  said  personage  for 
Archdeacon  Remington,  a  man  verie  well  lerned  as  he  informeth 
mee,  and  whoe  hath  also  married  another  of  your  dawghters ; 
and  the  like  suite  hath  been  made  to  mee  heare  by  the  Deane 
of  Yorke,  whoe  offreth  for  the  same  to  resyne  a  benefice  he  hath 
in  this  parte  in  the  southe ;  and  yet  nevertheles  the  same  shall 
be  soe  disposed  as  your  Lordship  shall  require.  And  so  I  verye 
hartelie  commend  mee  to  your  Lordship.  From  the  Cort,  this 
xxi^' of  August,  1590. 

Your  Lordship's  verie  lovinge  frend, 

W.   BURGHLEY. 

To  the  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  vearie  good  Lord 
the  Bishop  of  Durham. 

(Signature  in  the  hand  of  Lord  Burghley.     Wafer,  Seal  of  arms,  with 
motto  of  the  Garter.) 


LETTER  XXVIL 

SIR    ROB.    CECYLL    TO    MY    LORD's    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

September  1,  1590.     (560.) 

May  it  please  your  Grace  :  Althoughe,  when  I  dyd  wryte  my 
letters  unto  you  in  favour  of  M^  Fant,  I  labored  not  to  presse 
your  Grace  with  any  ernestnes  of  wordes,  because  her  Majestie's 
letters  were  so  gracyously  and  effectually  wrytten  at  that  tyme, 
which  seemed  to  be  of  strengthe  sufficient  to  prevayle  in  so  rea- 
sonable a  matter  ;  yet,  uppon  your  aunsweare,  and  viewe  of 
that  which  hath  synce  fallen  out  in  the  prosecution  of  his  sute 
with  my  cosen  Stanhoppe,  (by  whom  I  am  sorry  it  was  his  happe 
to  be  in  that  sort  crossed,)  I  have  bethought  me  howe  by  your 
Grace's  meanes,  bothe  my  cosen  may  retayne  the  hold  he  bathe 
already,  as  you  ernestly  desyre  he  should,  and  the  gentleman  lyke- 
wyse  be  otherwyse  in  some  reasonable  manner  satisfyed.     And 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  79 

that  is,  that  it  would  please  your  Grace  to  fyncle  out  some  other 
lease  belonging  to  that  sea,  Avherein  you  may  make  him  an  estate 
de  bene  esse,  (suehe  as  it  is  knowen  your  Grace  may  doe,)  without 
any  other  scruple  of  conscience,  or  hinderance  to  your  selfe  ;  so 
it  be  a  thing  that  may  in  some  good  measure  be  answerable  to 
his  former  expectancy,  which  nowe  he  will  thereuppon  be  content 
to  relinquishe.  For  your  Grace  may  very  well  conceave,  that 
her  Majestic,  by  the  great  ernestnes  and  charge  that  her  lettres 
caryed,  had  a  most  gratyous  meaninge  towards  hym  for  the 
eifecting  of  his  desyre  ;  which  albeit  it  may  in  the  particuler 
receave  some  stoppe,  (and  the  rather  in  that  place  where  it  dyd,) 
yet  would  I  be  loth  she  should  understand  that  her  lettres  dyd 
ether  become  frustrate,  or  not  receave  such  entertainment  at 
your  Grace's  hands  as  they  do  well  deserve,  and  the  present  oc- 
casyon  requyreth.  I  doe  therefore  pray  your  Grace  to  conferre 
with  my  cosen,  to  th'  end  something  may  be  eftected  agreable 
to  that  her  Majestic  intended  towards  hym  ;  whether  it  be  by 
graunt  of  a  lease,  or  some  porcyon  of  money  to  be  raysed  uppon 
some  tennants  that  seeke  to  have  their  estates  renewed,  (in 
which  kynde  it  seemethe  your  Grace  had  a  purpose  to  gyve  him 
contentment,)  so  that  the  sayd  somme  may  recompence  in  a  good 
proporcyon  the  losse  of  his  former  hope;  which,  being  of  a  thino- 
partly  in  his  owne  possessyon,  was  therefore  so  well  grounded,  as 
in  regarde  thereof,  and  also  of  the  great  meanes  he  hath  used, 
together  with  his  charge  and  travayle  therein,  deserveth  suche 
good  respect  and  consideracion  as  may  be  any  wayes  expected 
from  your  Grace,  who  have  ever  shewed  your  selfe  most  willino-  to 
accomplish  her  INIajestie's  demaunds  when  they  have  ben  nether 
so  ernestly  written,  nor  in  a  more  reasonable  cause  then  this, 
wherin  her  gracyous  desposycion  should  not  so  lightly  be  passed 
over.  And  so,  hoping  to  receave  your  comfortable  aunsweare, 
which  is  expected,  I  commend  your  Grace  to  God's  protecion. 
From  the  Cort  at  Oateland's,  the  first  of  Sept.  1600. 

Your  Grace's  very  loving  and  assured  friend, 

Ro.  Cecyll. 

To  the  most  reverent  Father  in  God,  my  very  good  Lordo 
the  Lord  Archbishop  of   Yorke's  Grace,   one  of  the 
Counscll  established  in  the  nortli  parte. 
(Signature  in  the  hand-writing  of  CccylL    Large  oval  armorial  seal,  \n  wafer, 
containing  six  quarterings.) 


80  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC 


LETTER  XXVIII. 

DR,    TOBIE    MATTHEW,    DEAN    OF    DURHAM,    TO    DR.   HUTTON, 
BISHOP    OF    DURHAM. 

2  Jan.  1590-1. 

PosTQUAM  pro  officii  mei  ratione,  sub  hoc  anno  vertente,  mittere 
tibi  libuit  (Pr;iesul  amplissime)  expressam  effigiem  D.  Joannis 
Juelli  Sarisbuiiensis  quondam  Episcopi,  milii  cum  multis  aliis 
observandi,  turn  eo  pvsecipue  quod  sacras  manus  capiti  meo  pri- 
mas  et  postremas  adhibuerit ;  non  alio  sane  consilio  feci,  quam  ut 
quoties  eam  tabellam  serio  ac  libenter  aspiceres,  respireres,  toties 
de  viro  sanctissimo,  de  scriptore  clarissimo,  de  pastore  vigilantis- 
simo,  de  Pontifice  denique  vere  reverendo  diu  multumque  cogita- 
res  :  cui  totus  virtutum,  literarum,  animarum,  Antistum  (sic)  pvffi- 
sertim  nostratium  chorus  plurimum  debet  ac  defert,  qui  licet  mutus 
tamen  loquitur,  licet  mortuus  tamen  vivit :  et  loquetur,  spero, 
quandiu  his  in  terris  Anglicana  militabit  ecclesia ;  vivet  autem, 
scio,  seclis  innumerabilibus,  ut  vetus  Poeta  canit.  Nudius  vero 
tertius  accepi  abs  te  (ne  quid  vel  benevolentiai  tuee,  vel  benefi- 
centiee,  deesse  videretur)  pro  tabula  annulum,  pro  ligno  aurum, 
pro  mortui  hominis  effigie  vivam  ipsius  mortis  imaginem,  non  hac 
scriptione  solum  insignitam,  Charltas  maneat^  sed  hoc  etiam 
carmine  illustratam, 

MatthtEus  morti  cedet,  cedetque  Tobias : 

Sed  turn  vivemus.     Dllige,  vive,  vale. 

Eleganter  omnia,  singula  prudenter,  uti  soles.  Nam  ut  sapientes 
multa  paucis  complectunt,  sic  istud  tuum  multum  me  monet,  et 
monet  plurimum.      Sic  igitur  apud  me. 

Auro  quid  in  metallis  perfectius,  in  medicinis  quid  salutarius,  in 
sacris  olim  quid  augustius,  quid  pondere  gravius,  tactu  laevius, 
aspectu  pulchrius,  quid  vel  ad  commoditatem  nostram  utilius,  vel 
ad  voluptatem  gratius,  vel  ad  speciem,  dignitatem,  pompam,  splen- 
didius  ?  Ut  uno  verbo  dicam,  quid  est,  aut  esse  potest,  in  rebus 
humanis  vel  natura  sua  preestantius,  vel  sestimatione  nostra  pre- 
tiosius  ?  Oujus  etsi  sacra,  sive  scelerata,  fames  mortalia  pectora 
coo-it,  ut  nihil,  .....  eaque  re,  duro  ac  diro  vocabulo,  Mam- 
mona  iniquitatis  appellatur  ;  non  eo  tamen  (si  quid  ego  forte 
judico)  vitiositas  ulla  ipsi  rei  insita  aut  inusta  significatur,  sed 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  81 

eorum  potius  Midarum  et  Eucllonum  depravata  conditio  repre- 
henditur,  a  quibus  virtus  post  nummos,  Deus  post  divitias,  coe- 
lum  post  aurum  quseri  solet.  Quod  genus  liominum  est  pessimum, 
vereor  etiam  ne  reproLuin.  Deinde  mortis  representatio,  tam 
clara  et  perspicua,  quanti  refert,  qua  non  in  aures  tantum  influit 
aliquando,  sed  continuo  in  oculos  incurrit  ?  Nam  ut  oculorum 
sensus  est  acerrimus,  et  unus  testis  oculatus  pluris  fit  quam  au- 
riti  decern ;  ita  segnius  irritant  animos  demissa  per  aures,  quam 
quae  sunt  oculis  subjecta  fidelibus  :  si  philosophis,  si  poetis,  si 
jurisperitis,  adeoque  si  sacris  literis  ipsis  credimus.  Neque  enim 
quicquam  facit  vehementius  aut  solidius  ad  illicitas  carnis  illece- 
bras  cohibendas ;  ad  tumidos  arrogantiae  et  superbise  flatus 
reprimendos  ;  ad  inexplebilem  illam  auri  et  argenti  sitiui  restin- 
guendam ;  ad  viles  et  abjectas,  addo  etiam  falsas  et  fallaces, 
mundi  hujus  vanitates  floccifaciendas ;  denique  ad  omnes  vitiorum 
fibras  extirpandas,  omnesque  virtutum  fruges  primo  quoque  tempore 
proferendas,  quam  hsec  assidua  mortis  recordatio.  Qua?  ut  ultima 
linea  rerum  esse  dicitur,  et  rerum  omnium  ducitur  maxime  terri- 
bilis,  cujus  vel  ipsa  memoria  peramara  est  homini  pacem 
habenti  in  divitiis  suis :  ita  nobis  (Reverende  pater)  qui  non 
habemus  hie  manentem  civitatem,  sed  futuram  inquirimus ;  qui 
dissolvi  cupimus  et  esse  cum  Christo,  quorum  conversatio  in  coelis 
est,  aut  esse  certe  debet :  dici  non  potest  quam  jucundam  et 
speciem  prse  se  ferat,  et  spem  exhibeat,  brevi  fore,  ut  a  peccato 
ad  justitiam,  a  luctu  ad  Isetitiam,  a  tenebris  ad  lucem,  a  terris 
ad  coelos,  a  sceleratorum  consortio  ad  beatas  animas  et  Angelo- 
rum  sedes,  per  mortem,  vita  sempiternse  januam,  transeamus. 
Necessaria  sane  et  pia  commentatio,  si  modo  est  ulla,  qua  una 
hsec  nostra  vita  tam  fugax  et  fragilis,  si  tamen  vita  sit  nuncupanda, 
plane  tota  continetur.  Nunc  de  amore  illo,  vel  amicitia,  quod 
etiam  atque  etiam  mentio  injicitur,  si  de  more  hoc  facis,  recte  tu 
quidem :  sin  quod  opus  esse  hoc  aculeo  suspiceris,  magnam  tu 
mihi,  sed  majorem  ipse  tibi  facis  injuriam.  Etenim  quod  ad  te 
primum  attinet.  Quis  non  amet,  colat,  veneretur  illud  tam  acre 
et  acutum  ingenium,  illas  literas  et  linguas  tam  varias  et  multi- 
plices,  illam  tam  multam  tamque  assiduam  lectionem,  tam 
altam  et  reconditam  rerum  humauarum  divinarumque  scientiam, 
judicium  tam  sagax  et  solidum,  illam  viriiem  docendi  ac  persua- 
dendi  vim,  venerabilem  illam  et  reverendam  canitiem,  postremo 
(quod  tamen  non  in  postremis  habendum  est)  humanitatem  et 


82  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

comitatem  cnm  gravitate  morum  viteeque  probitate  conjimctam  : 
hoc,  inquam,  tot  ac  tanta  virtutis  pvsesidia  et  ornamenta  quis  non 
amet  ?  Hsec  ego,  id  est  te  ipsum,  si  ex  animo  et  intimis  sensibus 
non  amem,  ita  me  Deus  amet,  amens  sim.  Quid  ?  Egone  te  non 
diligam  hodie,  quem  admirabar  turn  cum  audivi  primum  Canta- 
brigiae,  quicum  Eboraci  ssepiuscule  sermones,  eosque  familiares  et 
fidos,  miscui,  a  quo  ssepius  literas  benevolentise  et  facetiarum 
plenas  accepi,  qui  me  non  solum  omni  officio  sed  non  vulgari  be- 
neficio  aftecit  1  Longe  multumque  falluntur  et  fallunt,  quicunque 
sunt,  sive  Siba,  sive  Doeg,  sive  Achitophel,  qui  hoc  inter  nos  dis- 
sidium,  aut  uUam  non  dico  dissentionem,  sed  dubitationem,  vokmt. 
^mulantur  vos  non  ben^,  imo  excludere  vos  volunt,  imo  nos,  ut 
illos  semulemini. 

"  Res  est  soliciti  plena  timoris  amor."  Fateor  :  graviter  hoc 
dixit,  qui  multa  leviter.  At  gravius  multo  Paulus,  et  non  paulo 
verius,  "  Oharitas  non  est  suspitiosa,  sed  omnia  credit,  omnia 
sperat."  Oharitas  ergo  maneat,  sed  charitas  fraternitatis,  sed 
charitas  (ut  ita  dicam)  Paternitatis,  si  non  sine  ruga  et  macula 
in  hoc  mundo,  at  sine  dolo  et  fraude  in  amicitia,  quam  qui  vel 
perruperit,  vel  interruperit,  turn  a  constantia,  turn  a  conscientia 
exciderit  necesse  est,  Non  faciam  longius.  Hoc  tantum  subji- 
cio.  Contristatus  est  Petrus,  quod  Dominus  dixerat  ei  tertio, 
"  Amas  me  V  et  respondit  ei,  "  Domine,  tu  omnia  nosti,  tu  scis 
quod  amem  te."  Ne  graveris,  optime  Pater,  si  hsec  mihi  verba 
Petri  totidem  verbis  accommodem.  Audax  est  enim  amor  mens, 
et  magis  fortassis,  quam  tuns  est  suspicax.  Sed  sic  habeto.  Quod 
me,  non  dico  ter,  sed  toties  amoris  admonere  voluisti,  graviter 
sane  pro  eo  ac  debui  molesteque  tuli.  Domine,  etsi  non  omnia 
nosti,  ut  ille  ;  tu  scis  tamen,  et  scies,  te  amari  a  me,  quantum 
hominem  ab  homine  fas  est.  Tuus  sum,  et  secundum  Deum 
totus  tuus,  idque  tuo  merito  :  ne  quasso  diffidas,  ne  dubites. 
Testis  mens  in  coelis  est,  qui  nee  fallit,  nee  fallitur. 

Vive  dill,  sed  vive  Deo  ;  nam  vivere  mundo 

Mortis  opus  :  viva  est  vivere  vita  Deo. 

Vale  mi  Pater.     Dunelm.,  2  Jan.  1590. 

Honori  tuo  addictissimus 

Tobias  Matth^us. 

To  the  Riglit  Reverend  Father  in  God,  and  my  verie  good  Lord, 
my  Lord  Bushop  of  Duresme,  at  Awkeland. 

(The  whole  letter  in  the  Dean's  very  neat  hand-writing.     Seal  of  arms, 
a  lion  rampant,  resting  its  paws  upon  a  column.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  83 

No.  XXIX. 
COPIA  SENTENTItE,  &c. 

THE  SENTENCE    FOR    DILAPIDATIONS    BETWYXT    THE    EXECUTORS 
OF    BYSHOPP    BARNES    B.    OF    DURESME    AND    HYS    SUCCESSOR. 

9  Dec.  1592. 

In  Dei  nomine,  Amen.  Auditis,  visis,  et  intellectis,  ac  plenarie 
discussis,  per  nos  Johannem  Gibson  legum  doctorem,  almte  curiae 
consistorialis  Ebor.  officialem  legitime  deputatum,  meritis  et  cir- 
cumstautiis  cujusdam  causre  dilapidationis  castrorum,  manerio- 
rum,  domorum  et  sedificiorum  ad  Episcopatum  Duneim.  Ebor. 
provincia?,  spectantium  et  pertinentium,  quaa  coram  nobis  in  dicta 
curia  inter  Reverendum  in  Christo  patrem  dominum  Mattheum 
providentia  Divina  Dunelm.  Episcopum  partem  actricem  ex  una, 
et  Johannem  Barnes  Dunelm.  diocess.  generosum  executorem 
testamenti  sen  ultimaj  voluntatis  domini  Ricliardi  Barnes  nu- 
per  Dunelm.  Episcopi.  defuncti,  immediati  dicti  Episcopi  mo- 
derni  in  dicta  sede  sen  dicto  Episcopatu  Dunelm.  prsecessoris  seu 
prajdecessoris,  coram  nobis  legitime  comparentem  et  nostrse  juris- 
dictioni  se  submittentem,  partem  ream  et  defendentem  ex  altera, 
judicialiter  controvertebatur,  controvertitur,  et  adhuc  pendet  inde- 
cisa,  oblato  libello  ex  parte  et  per  partem  dicti  Reverendi 
patris  domini  Matthai  nunc  Dunelm.  Episcopi  antedicti  cum 
scbedula  defectuum,  decasuum,  ruinarum,  dilapidationum  et  con- 
sumptionum  castrorum,  maneriorum,  domorum  et  sedificiorum 
prffidictorum  eidem  libello  annexa,  traditisque  dicta  parti  rese  co- 
piis  libelli  et  schedulse  pradictaj  eodemque  libello  in  dicta  causa 
exhibito  sic  incipiente.  In  Dei  nomine,  Amen.  Coram  vobis,  &:c. 
Quem  libellum  quamque  schedulam  habemus  pro  hie  respective 
lecta  et  inserta,  liteque  ad  eundem  libellum  per  dictam  partem 
ream  negative  contestata,  observatisque  omnibus  et  singulis 
de  jure  in  hac  parte  observandis,  terminoque  ad  audiendum 
sententiam  nostram  diffinitivam  in  dicta  causa  ferendam  prafatis 
partibus  per  nos  judicialiter  assignato,  ac  ipso  termino  adveni- 
ente,  partibusque  prsedictis,  actrice  videlicet  per  Magistrum  Willi- 
elmum  Fothergill,  rea  vero  per  Magistrum  Edmundum  Lyndley, 

G    2 


84  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

notaries  piiblicos,  eorum  respective  procuratores,  coram  nobis  loco 
consistoriali  infra  ecclesiam  cathedralem  et  metropoliticam  beati 
Petri  Ebor.  judicialiter  pro  tribunali  publice  sedentibns  compa- 
rentibus,  ac  sententiam  per  nos  ferri  et  justitiam  fieri  instanter 
postulantibus,  invocata  Spiritus  Sancti  gratia  maturaque  delibera- 
tione  prsehabita,  de  et  cum  consilio  jurisperitorum  cum  quibus  in 
hac  parte  communicavimus,  de  et  cum  consensu  Magistri  Johannis 
Benet  legum  doctoris,  collegse  nostri  in  hac  parte,  ad  sententiffi 
nostrse  diffinitivse  in  dicta  causa  ferendre  prolationem  sic  duximus 
procedendum  et  de  consensu  quo  supra  procedimus  in  hunc  qui 
sequitur  modum  :  In  Dei  nomine,  Amen.  Quia  per  acta  inactitata, 
deducta,   proposita,  exhibita,   allegata,  narrata,  probata  et  con- 
fessata  in  causa  memorata  comperimus  luculenter  et  invenimus 
dictam  partem  actricem  intentionem  suam  in  dicto  suo  libello  de- 
ductam  et  propositam  quoad  subsequentia  sufficienter  ftindasse  et 
probasse,  nihilque  efFectuale  ex  parte  aut  per  partem  dicti  Johan- 
nis Barnes  partis  rea  antedictse  quod  intentionem  partis  dicti  Re- 
verendi  patris  in  ea  parte  elideret   sen   quomodolibet  enervaret 
allegatum   et    probatum    fuisse    et    esse,    idcirco   nos    Johannes 
Gibson  legum  doctor,  officialis  antedictus,  de   et  cum  consensu 
Magistri  Johannis  Benet  legum  doctoris,  college  nostri  pradicti, 
dictum  Johannem  Barnes  executorem  et  partem  ream   antedic- 
tam  in  summam  sexaginta  quatuor  librarum  trium  solidorum  et 
sex   denariorum  legalis  monet£e   Anglise   pro   minis,   defectibus, 
decasibus  et  dilapidationibus  castrorum,  maneriorum,  domorum  et 
ffidificiorum    ad    dictum   Episcopatum    Dunelm.   spectantium    et 
pertinentium  parti  dicti  Reverendi  patris  solvendam,  et  in  repar- 
ationem,  emendationem,  erectionem  et  meliorationem  eorumdem 
castrorum,  maneriorum,  domorum  et  adificiorum  pradictorum  im- 
pendendam,  distribuendam,  et  erogandam,  necnon  eundem  Johan- 
nem Barnes,  de  et  cum  consensu  pra^fati  Magistri  Johannis  Benet 
legum  doctoris  antedicti,  in  expensis  per  partem  dicti  Reverendi 
patris  in  hac  parte  factis  et  legitime  fiendis  condemnamus  ac  ad 
solutionera  eorumdem    praemissorum   ecclesiastice    cogendum    et 
compellendum  fore  decernimus  per  banc  nostram  sententiam  diffi- 
nitivam  sive  hoc  nostrum  finale  decretum,  quam  sive  quod  ferimus 
et  promulgamus  in   hiis   scriptis.     Taxationem  vero  hujusmodi 
expensarum  nobis  seu  alii  judici  in  hac  parte  competenti  cuicun- 
que  reservantes  et  reservamus  etiam  in  hiis  scriptis. 
Lecta  fuit  hsec  sententia  nono  Decembris,  1592. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  85 

LETTER  XXX. 

LORD    BURGHLEY    TO    MY    LORD    OF    DURESME. 
June  15,  1593.     (556.) 

My  Lord, — Whereas  my  friende  M^  Atye  sendeth  nowe  to 
you  aboute  some  busynes  of  his  owne  with  your  Lordship,  I 
hartelie  praye  your  Lordship  to  she  we  him  all  reasonable  favour 
as  to  one  serving  hir  Majestie  under  me,  and  to  whome  I  wishe 
verie  well :  I  will  thancke  you  for  it.  And  so,  with  my  righte 
hartie  commendacions,  I  bid  your  Lordship  farewell.  Att  Lon- 
don, the  15*  of  June,  1593. 

Your  Lordship's  assured  lovyng  frend, 

W.   BuRGHLEY. 

To  the  right  Reverende  Father  in  God,  my  very  good  Lord, 
the  Lord  Bishop  of  Duresnie. 

(The  signature  and  three  preceding  words,  with  part  of  the  fourth,  are  in 
Lord  Burghley's  own  hand.) 


LETTER  XXXL 

PEARSIE    THE    EARLE    OF    NORTHUMBERLAND    TO    MY    LORd's 
GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

Maie  12,  1594.     (562.) 

First  with  thanks  to  your  Lordship  for  your  favorable  pro- 
cedings  and  fnrtherance  in  my  causes,  I  must  yeeld  thankes, 
and  rest  to  doe  your  Lordship  any  kindenes  is  in  my  power. 
Secondely,  I  doe  entreat  your  Lordship,  where  as  their  is  a 
cause  depending  between  my  Auditor  and  Sampson  Ingleby  to 
be  hard  before  you,  that  you  will  suspend  the  proceding  their  in, 
since  I  have  taken  order  in  the  same,  and  mind  to  redresse  the 
wrong  where  it  is  offered.  The  cause  is  a  perticular  of  myne 
own,  where  I  must  confesse  my  meaning  to  hold  in  the  one, 
and  the  not  soe  exact  dealing  in  the  other  that  had  my  trust 


86  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

imponed  uppon  him.     Soe,  with  my  best  wishes  to  your  Lord- 
ship, I  rest 

At  your  disposition  to  use, 

Northumberland. 
Pctworth,  this  12  May. 

(The  whole  in  the  Earl's  own  hand.     Fragments  of  seal  in  wax  with  the 
crescent  of  Percy.) 


LETTER  XXXn. 

SIR    ROB.    CECYLL    TO    MY    LORD    OF    DURESME. 
October  13,  1594.     (555.) 

My  good  Lorde,  I  have  understoode  by  your  lettre  with 
what  willingnes  your  Lordship  hath  bestowed  on  me  the  righte 
you  have  in  the  wardeshipp  of  one  Buckle,  wherin  your  Lord- 
ship writeth  lykewyse  to  me  to  nominate  some  such  personne 
in  whose  name  I  wouki  have  the  same  to  passe.  For  the  first  I 
doe  returne  your  Lordship  my  very  hartie  thankes,  assuring  you, 
that  in  any  occasion  ofFred  me  I  will  make  requittall  therof 
towards  your  Lordship  or  any  of  yours  ;  and  for  the  other  matter, 
because  there  is  some  lykelihood  that  he  may  be  found  lykewise 
a  warde  to  the  Queene  by  the  tenure  of  some  lands  hereabout, 
I  have  procured  a  graunt  of  her  Majesty's  tytle  if  there  be  any 
suche  proved.  And  nowe,  to  the  intent  I  mought  receave  from 
your  Lordship  such  a  graunt  as  may  be  of  validitie  unto  me,  I 
am  desirous  to  have  the  deed  made  by  the  advise  of  some  of 
my  councell,  and  therfore  doe  most  hartely  pray  your  Lord- 
ship to  send  me  up  a  copie  of  the  inquisicion  taken  in  that 
.contrye,  wherby  suche  particularites  may  be  knowen  here  as 
shalbe  fytt  to  be  inserted  into  the  graunt ;  which  course  I  knowe 
shalbe  to  your  Lordship  all  one  (seing  you  meane  to  give)  ;  that 
the  gifte  may  be  so  framed  as  may  not  be  subject  to  questyon 
hereafter :  and  for  the  more  expedicion  hereof  I  j^ray  your  Lord- 
ship that  it  may  be  sent  up  by  some  of  the  ordynary  posts  that 
runne  betwene  Duresme  and  the  Court.  It  is  very  true  that  I 
am  fullie. persuaded  that  there  wilbe  a  title  found  for  the  Queene, 
wherin   (althouglie   it    so   fallinge  out)   your  Lordship's  graunt 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  87 

shall  not  be  needfull ;  yet  shall  my  thankes  be  as  due  unto  you, 
and  my  readynes  to  requytt  the  same  in  any  thinge  wherin  I 
may  have  occasion.  And  so  I  commend  your  Lordship  to  God's 
favourable  proteccion.  From  my  house  in  the  Strand,  the  xiij"" 
of  Octobre,  1594. 

Your  Lordship'^s  very  loving  and  assured  friende, 

Ro :  Cecyll. 

To  the  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  very  good  Lorde,  the  Lorde 
Bushopp  of  Duresme. 

(Seal  wanting.     The  signature  in  Cecill's  own  hand.) 


LETTER  XXXIIL 

A    LETTER    FROM    ARCHBISHOP    WHITGIFT    TO    BISHOP    HUTTON, 
UPON    HIS    INTENDED    TRANSLATION    TO    YORK. 

4  Nov.  1594. 

Salutem  in  Christo  !  I  dowte  not  but  that  your  Lordship 
understandeth  of  her  Majestie's  disposition  to  remove  you  to 
Yorke.  I  have  signifyed  to  her  Highnesse  that  you  are  better, 
in  respect  of  living,  now  where  you  are  placed,  and  that  I 
thowght  you  wold  be  lothe  to  remove.  She  answered  that  you 
shal  remove,  and  that  you  are  well  able  to  here  the  charges 
thereof:  so  that  you  must  prepare  yourself  thereto,  if  this  re- 
solution hold,  as  I  think  it  will.  I  wold  not  have  written  to  you 
of  this  matter  until  yt  had  bene  fullie  concluded,  but  for  the  im- 
portunitie  of  your  man.  And  so,  with  my  verie  hartie  commen- 
dations, I  commit  you  to  the  tuition  of  Almyghtie  God.  From 
Lamb,  the  4  of  Novemb.  1594. 

Your  Lordship's  loving  brother  and  frend, 

Jo :  Cantuak. 

To  the  Right  Reverend  in  Clu-iste  my  verie  good  Lord  and  brother,  the 
Bishop  of  Durham. 

(In  the  hand  of  the  Archbishop.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  XXXIV. 


WHYTGYFT,    ARCHBISHOP    OF    CANTERBURY,    TO    THE 
BISHOP    OF    DURHAM. 

2  Dec.  1594. 

Salutem  in  Ciiristo  !  Yesterday,  beeng  the  first  of  this 
monethe,  her  Majestie  in  the  pra?sens  of  all  her  eounsell  did 
nominate  such  as  are  to  be  placed  in  the  bishoppricks  voyde 
and  to  be  voyde :  as  namelie  your  self  to  York ;  D^  Matthew 
to  Durham ;  the  bishop  of  Wigoin  to  London  ;  and  M^  Day, 
dene  of  Windsor,  to  Wigorne.  The  bishop  of  Lincolne  to  Win- 
ton  ;  the  bishop  of  Chester  to  Lincolne ;  the  bishop  of  Bangor  to 
Chester ;  and  one  D^  Vaughan,  an  honest  and  learned  man,  to 
Bangor.  M^  Redman,  archdeacon  of  Canterbury,  to  Norwich  ; 
the  bishop  of  Landafe  to  Exitor.  God  be  thangked,  as  good  a 
choyse  as  can  be  desyered.  There  ys  order  gyvne  for  the  con- 
secration, and  therefore  your  Lordship  shal  do  well  to  send  upp 
some  to  followe  your  businesse  here.  And  I  am  glad  that 
there  ys  so  good  a  cause  to  bring  you  hether  so  sone.  Vale  in 
Christo  !     Frome  Lamb,  the  2  of  Decemb.  1594. 

Your  Lordship's  loving  frend  and  brother, 

Jo :   Cantuar. 

To  the  Reverend  Fatlier  in  God,  my  verie  good  Lord  and  brother, 
the  Bishop  of  Dvuham. 

(The  whole  in  the  Archbishop's  own  hand.     Seal  of  arms.) 


LETTER  XXXV. 

PUCKERING,  LORD  KEEPER,  TO  MY  LORD  OF  DURESME. 

December  2,  1594.     (566.) 

My  very  good  Lord,  Understanding  her  Majestie's  gracious 
resolution  towards  your  Lordship  to  call  you  to  the  see  of  York, 
wherof  I  am  verie  hartily  gladd,  as  well  in  respect  of  your  woor- 
thynesse,  as  for  the  affection  I  bear  unto  your  Lordship,  I  am 
therby  occasioned  to  make  a  request  unto  you  concerning  this 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  89 

house  wheriii  I  now  dwell,  belonging  to  that  see  :  which  as  the 
Archbisshop  that  first  purchased  it  did  (in  respect  of  the  conve- 
nient situacion  therof  for  the  service  of  the  common  weale) 
purposely  destine  (as  I  have  credibly  heard  reported  upon  his 
owne  speech  to  the  late  Lord  Keeper)  for  a  dwelling  house  for 
thoes  that  shuld  have  the  charge  of  the  great  scale,  which  might 
likely  happen  often  unto  his  successors  in  that  see ;  so  the  same 
having  hitherto  ben  accordinglie  employed,  and  enjoyed  for  the 
most  parte  by  my  predecessors,  I  am  to  desier  the  like  favor 
therin  at  your  Lordship's  hands  as  they  have  ever  hitherto  re- 
ceyved  at  the  hands  of  the  former  Archbishops.  Neither  doe  I 
so  desier  to  hold  it  of  your  Lordship  as  a  badd  tennant  (which 
I  have  not  hitherto  ben,  for  I  have  in  this  litle  time  bestowed 
above  200^.  in  reparacions  about  the  house) ;  but  either  to  have  it 
by  leasse  for  some  certein  terme  at  a  reasonable  rent,  as  the  late 
Lord  Keeper  had  it,  or  otherwise  by  promis  from  your  Lordship  to 
enjoy  it  for  your  time,  mainteyning  the  house  in  due  reparations, 
and  furnishing  you  with  a  convenient  house  for  your  own  use 
when  you  shall  have  occasion  to  be  here  at  London,  whether  of 
the  two  your  Lordship  shall  best  like.  There  is  one  M^  Sands 
that  pretendeth  an  interest  in  a  great  parte  of  the  house,  and  in 
the  keeping  of  the  whole  house  in  th'  absence  of  the  Archbisshop, 
with  a  fee  therunto  belonging,  by  patent  from  the  late  Arch- 
bisshop of  that  name,  which  he  hath  hertofore  offered  unto  me  ; 
but  I  have  hitherto  refused  to  deale  with  him  for  it,  esteeming  that 
your  Lordship  (having  no  great  use  of  it  in  respect  of  your  con- 
tynuall  residence  in  that  province)  will  think  it  as  fitt  for  me  to 
use  as  for  another  man  to  keep,  and  therfore  desyring  to  have 
it  rather  by  your  Lordship  than  by  any  such  interest.  If  I  may 
obteyne  this  curtesy  at  your  hands,  I  shall  account  myself  much 
beholding  to  your  lordship  for  it,  and  endevor  to  requite  it  as  I 
may.  Wherin  desyring  your  full  and  speedy  answer,  that  I 
may  therby  be  resolved  whether  to  be  herin  satisfied  by  your 
Lordship,  or  otherwise  to  use  such  fiirther  means  as  I  may  to 
her  Majesty,  I  commend  me  unto  you  most  hartily,  and  your 
Lordship  to  the  gracious  government  of  the  Almightie.  From 
York  house,  this  second  of  December,  1594. 

Your  Lordship''s  assured  fi-end, 

Jo  :     PuCKERINGE. 
To  my  voiic  good  Lord  the  Lord  Bisliopj)C  of  Duresuic. 


90  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

LETTER  XXXVI. 

CARIE    LORD    HUNSDON    TO    MY    LORD's    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 
December  2,  1594.     (554.) 

My  verie  good  Lorde,  I  have  thought  good  to  advertise 
you,  that  yestarday  in  the  afternoone,  being  the  first  of  this 
monthe,  her  Majesty  made  a  full  conclusion  and  resolution  of 
such  Bishoppes  as  shee  doth  intend  to  make  and  to  remove ; 
whereof  she  hath  appoyncted  to  remove  your  Lordship  from 
wher  you  are  to  Yorke,  and  such  others  whoes  names  I  doe 
send  your  Lordship  heereunder  wrytten.  And  so,  being  verie  glad 
of  your  Lordship"'s  preferment,  I  commyt  you  to  the  Almightie. 
Somersett  howse,  this  ij*  of  December,  1594. 

Your  Lordship's  loving  ffrynd, 

H.  HuNSDON. 

To  the  Right  Reverent  fFather  in  God,  my  verie  good  Lord 
the  Bishoppe  of  Duresme. 

(The  signature  in  the  Lord  Hunsdon's  own  hand.) 

Theis  5  are  presently  to  have  Conge  d'eslire  : 
The  Bishop  of  Duresme  to  York. 
The  Bishop  of  Worcester  to  London. 
The  Bishop  of  Lyncolne  to  Wyn  Chester. 
The  Bishop  of  Landaff  to  Exceter. 
Mr.  Eedman,  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury,  to  Norwich. 

For  theis  nothing  can  be  done  tyll  the  other  be  chosen  and 
consecrated. 

The  Bishop  of  Chester  to  Lyncolne. 
The  Bishop  of  Bangor  to  Chester. 
Mr.  Daye,  Deane  of  Wyndsor,  to  Worcester. 
Doctor  Mathew,  Deane  of  Durham,  to  Durham. 
Doctor  Vaughan  to  Bangor. 
Doctor  James  to  the  Deanrie  of  Durham. 
Doctor  Bilson  to  the  Deanrie  of  Wyndsor. 
Doctor  Lillie,  or  )  to  the  Deanrie  of  Christ  Church  in 
Doctor  Eedes    f      Oxou. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  91 


LETTER  XXXVII. 

DR.    TOBIE    MATTHEW,    DEAN    OF    DURHAM,    TO    DR.    MATTHEW 
HUTTON,    BISHOP    OF    DURHAM. 

6  Dec.  1594. 

My  boundeu  dutie  humbly  and  heartily  remembred  to  your 
good  Lordship,  with  manie  lyk  thanks  for  my  last  and  best  in- 
tertainment,  beyond  the  expectation  of  some  that  would  needes 
make  me  beleve  otherwise  then  nowe  I  see  and  fynde  that  there 
was  cause.  But  I  send  your  Lordship  in  liewe  thereof  (having 
not  of  myne  owne  to  requite  your  Lordship's  great  favor  there- 
in) these  included  from  your  Lordship''s  verie  good  Lord  and 
myne,  the  Lord  Chamberlaine,  and  therwitlmll  the  predominant 
prelacie  of  this  province.  God  geve  your  Lordship  longe  and 
muche  prosperitie  therein,  and  make  me  worthie  to  be  your  suc- 
cessor here  in  tyme,  which  his  Lordship  signifieth  unto  me  to  be 
her  Majestie's  pleasure  also.^^  Wherein  if  it  please  God  to  place 
me,  your  Lordship  shall  have  as  obedient  and  faithfull  a  succes- 
sor as  any  whatsoever  could  have  been  nominated  therunto ; 
whiche  tyme,  the  mother  of  truth,  shall  prove.  I  have  hitherto 
silenced  this  present  busines  both  your  Lordship's  and  myne,  for 
that  I  knowe  not  whether  your  Lordship  will  have  it  knowen  as 
yet.  Thus,  humbly  desyring  the  continuance  of  your  Lordship's 
good  opinion  and  favor,  I  betake  your  Lordship  to  the  grace  of 
God,  who  reward  our  most  gratious  soveraigne  and  many  many 
yeres  preserve  her  Majestic  !  At  Duresme,  6  December,  1594. 
In  haste  as  is  required. 

Your  Lordship's  humble  and  assured  at  commandement, 

ToBiE  Matthew. 

My  humble  commendacions  to  good  M'"^  Hutton. 

To  the  Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  and  my  verie  good  Lord,  my  Lord 
Bushopp  of  Duresme  at  Awkeland,  with  spede. 

(The  whole  letter  in  the  Dean's  own  hand.     Perfect  Seal  of  arms  in  wax, 
quarterly,  a  lion  rampant  and  three  chevrons.) 

1*  The  writer  became  Bishop  Hutton's  successor  in  the  see  of  Durham,  and 
eventually  succeeded  him  in  the  Archbishoprick  of  York. 


92  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  XXXVIII. 

PART  OF  TWO  LETTERS  OF  THE  BISHOP  OF  DURHAM  TO  THE 
LORD  TRKASURER  IN  BEHALF  OF  THE  LADY  MARGARET 
NEVYL,  DAUGHTER  TO  THE  UNFORTUNATE  EARL  OF  WEST- 
MERLAND. 

11  Dec.  1594. 

I  SENT  up  in  the  beginning  of  the  term  to  sue  for  the  pardon 
of  the  Lady  Margaret  Nevyl,  taken  in  company  with  Boast  the 
seminary  priest.  She  lamenteth  with  tears  that  she  had  offended 
God  and  her  Sovereign,  and  she  is  wholly  reclaimed  from  Popery. 
D^  Aubrey  hath  had  her  pardon  drawn  since  the  beginning  of 
the  term.  If  it  come  not  quickly,  I  fear  she  will  die  with  sorrow. 
It  were  very  honourable  for  your  good  Lordship  to  take  the  care 
of  a  most  distressed  maiden,  who  descends,  as  your  Lordship 
knoweth,  of  great  nobility  in  the  house  of  Norfolk,  the  house  of 
Westmerland,  and  the  house  of  Rutland,  in  memory  of  men, 
and  was  but  a  child  of  five  years  old  when  her  unfortunate  father 
did  enter  into  the  rebellion ;  and  now  she  is  a  condemned  person, 
having  not  one  penny  by  year  to  live  upon  since  the  death  of 
her  mother,  who  gave  her  33^.  6s.  8(1.  a  year.  It  were  well  that 
her  Majesty  were  informed  of  her  miserable  state.  She  is  virtu- 
ously given,  humble,  modest,  and  of  very  good  behaviour.  From 
Aukland,  the  xi.  of  Decemb.  1594.^^ 


LETTER  XXXIX. 

DR.    TOBIE    MATTHEW,    DEAN    OF    DURHAM,    TO    DR.    MATTHEW 
HUTTON,    BISHOP    OF    DURHAM. 

31  Dec.  1594. 

My  verie  honorable  good  Lord  and  father,  Being  glad  to  heare 
that  your  Lordship  is  liable  so  strongly  to  wreastle  with  your 
coulde,  I  have  presumed  to  present  this  booke  of  figures  to  your 

'^  From  Strype's  Annals,  vol.  iv.  p.  198. 


^     ! 


,^^.1^.  ^.^.^-^J^/-.^^.-.  j^y^r^ 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  93 

Lordship,  fitt  for  jour  eies  to  passe  awaie  the  tyme,  while  you 
have  better  healthe  to  reade  greater  maters,  but  yet  not  of 
greater  persons.  Your  Lordship's  letters  I  take  in  dutifiill  and 
thankefull  parte,  and  according  to  my  bounden  dutie  doe  and  will 
ever  (whether  you  think  good  to  remove  or  abyde)  wisshe  your 
Lordship  and  good  M'^\  Hutton  the  renewing  of  many  happie 
yeares,  everie  one  more  happie  then  other,  to  the  pleasure  of 
Almightie  God,  that  Ancient  of  dales,  and  to  the  comfort  of  all 
that  depend  upon  you  here  and  elsewhere.  Thus  humbly  for 
this  present  taking  leave  of  your  Lordship.  At  Duresme,  ult. 
Decemb.  1594. 

Your  reverend  Lordship's  most  humble  in  Christ, 

ToBiE  Matthew. 

To  the  Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  and  my  verie  good 
Lord,  my  Lord  Bushop  of  Dm-esme,  at  Awkland. 

(The  whole  letter  in  the  Dean's  hand-writing.) 


LETTER  XL. 


SIR    ROBERT    CECYLL    AND    SIR    JO.   WOLLEY,    ETC.    PER    POST    T(J 
MY    LORD    OF    DURESME. 

17°  Januar.  1594-5.      (553.) 

Received  24  Januarii  prsedict. 

Our  verie  good  Lord,  Wee  have  receaved  fi-om  you  a  letter  of 
the  xxix"'  of  December,  in  aunswere  of  ours  written  by  her  Ma- 
jestie's  direction  ;  wherein  althoughe  wee  finde  a  course  much 
contrarie  to  our  expectacion,  yet  are  wee  of  opinion  that  uppon 
better  advise  you  will  not  be  unwilling  to  chaunge  your  former 
opinion,  espetiallie  if  wee  (as  your  friendes)  doe  both  open  unto 
you  wherein  you  are  mistaken,  and  give  you  caution  what  maie 
ensue  if  in  such  a  case  as  this  (where  the  Queene  is  interposed) 
you  ground  your  proceedings  uppon  a  false  foundacion.  First, 
where  you  alleage  that  the  late  Archbushop's  daies  were  short- 
ened by  his  being  pressed  in  the  lease  off  Martin  Pryorie,  wee 
cannot  but  lett  yow  knowe,  that,  if  anie  such  informacion  have 
ben  given  yow,  it  hath  ben  derived  from  some  lewde  spirit,  and 


94  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

that  wee  have  reasone  to  believe,  the  rather  because  wee  knowe, 
there  was  one  belongyng  to  the  late  Arehbushoppe  who  practised 
(for  his  particuler)  the  impeaching  of  this  graunt,  if  he  (lyke  a 
man  of  gravitie  and  judgement)  had  not  considered  what  was  fitt 
for  a  man  so  bound  to  doe  in  a  case   (by  his   Soveraigne)   so 
ernestlie  recommended.      And  where  it  seemeth  by  your  man's 
reporte  that  yow  thincke  it  mought  be  simonious  in  theise  cases  to 
j)asse  any  suche  promisses  to  the  Queene,  as  though  yow  bar- 
gained for  the  Bushoprike,  wee  thincke  it  very  absurde  to  make 
the  jiersonne  of  a  prince  and  a  subject  auie  thing  lyke  ;   for  he 
that  can  least  distinguishe  cannot  but  see  also  that  the  case  is 
whollie  changed  when  a  Bushop  is  a  suter  for  a  Bushopricke  by 
anie  subjecte's  mediacion,  or  takes  a  lyving  upon  condicion,  and 
where  a  prince,  that  gives  all,  requires  for  some  consideration 
but  somewhat  of  him  on  whom  (out  of  her  owne  free  grace)  shea 
is  contented  the   whole  shalbe  conferred.      To  conclude  :   your 
Lordship  shall  do  well  to  advise  yourselfe  of  some  better  reasone 
if  yow  determyne  to  make  denyall ;  for  as  nether  her  Majestic 
will  require  of  yow  anie  thing  unjust,  nether  wee  wilbe  wanting 
to  yow  in  anie  thing  wherein  wee  male  safelie  excuse  yow,  so  wee 
cannot  but  admonishe  yow  that  theese  nyceties  will  hardlie  be 
admitted  where  suche  a  prince  vouchsafes  to  intreate ;  and  ther- 
fore,  whatsoever  yow  are  purposed,  it  wilbe  verie  good  for  yow 
to  take  verie  greate  heede  of  delivering  anie  suche  report  uj^pon 
anie    single   or   partiall  informacion,   as  thoughe  her   Majestie''s 
requests  had  hastened  the  end  of  such  a  Reverend  Father,  of 
whom  in  his  liefe  her  Majestic  made  so  great  estimacion.     And 
if  yow  find  by  this  anie  cause  to  change  your  former  answere 
(even  for  your  owne  good),  then  send  us  up  your  mynde  as  yow 
meane  wee  shall  declare  it ;  our  love  and  care  being  suche  of  yow 
as  wee  have  not  thought  it   amisse  to  give  yow  this  counsell, 
which  proceeds  from  your  friends,  and  ought  accordinglie  to  be 
excepted.      Wee  have  said  somewhat  to  your  man  also,  wherein 
yow  shall  perceave  that  wee  have  as  great  care  of  avoiding  anie 
imputacion  uppon  yow  as  yourselfe  can  desire.     Wee  praie  your 
aunswere  with  speed,  and  so  wee  commend  yow  to  God's  protec- 
tion.    From  the  Corte  at  Grenewich,  the  xvii*''  of  Januarie,  1594. 
Your  Lordship's  verie  loving  frends, 

Ro.   OeCYLL.  J.    WoLLEY. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  95 

It  will   not  be  amysse   for   yow  to  looke  uppon   this  note, 
wherby  yow  maie  call  somewhat  in  minde  done  by  yourselfe. 

To  the  Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  our  verie  good 
Lorde,  the  Lord  Bushop  of  Duresme. 


LETTER  XLI. 


DR.    TOBIE    MATTHEW    TO    DR.    MATTHEW    HUTTON,    BISHOP    OF 

DURHAM. 

29  Jan.  1594-5. 

My  bounden  dutie  and  thankfulnes  remembred  to  your  good 
Lordship.  I  receaved  yesterdaie  from  my  Lord  Lieutenant  these 
enclosed  from  M\  Dethick  by  poste,  wherwith  I  thought  meete 
to  acquaint  your  Lordship,  that  yow  maie  therby  partely  per- 
ceave  how  thinges  goe  and  come.  My  brother  D.  wanteth  good 
advise  in  myne  opinion.  For  myne  owne  parte,  I  must  and  doe 
referre  my  selfe  wholely  to  the  divine  providence  of  God,  to  her 
Majestie's  gratious  favor,  still  continewed  for  ought  I  can  learne, 
and  to  your  Lordship's  good  furtherance  as  tyme  and  occasion 
shall  serve,  which  I  humbly  desyre  and  will  unfainedly  seeke  to 
deserve  alwaies.  Your  Lordship  is  godlie  wise ;  you  will  doe 
nothing  but  what  you  maie  doe  with  a  good  conscience  and 
with  honorable  credit.  What  that  is  no  man  can  judge  of  better 
then  your  self,  having  therunto  all  the  helpes  that  maie  be.  Sed 
noli  Justus  esse  nimium  :  yet  I  knowe  also  what  followeth. 
Your  Lordship,  I  presume,  will  geve  me  leave — 

"  Si  bene  quid  facias,  facias  cito  :  nam  cito  factum 
Gratum  erit,  ingratum  gratia  tarda  facit." 

God  loveth,  and  so  doe  princes,  a  cherefuU  gever.  Noli 
perdere  substantiam  propter  accidens.  Thinges  be  not  as  they  be, 
but  as  they  be  taken.  Okie  frendes  loke  to  be  used  after  the 
olde  fasshion.  Newe  frendes  are  not  like  the  olde,  neither  so 
Avell  knowen,  nor  so  easily  kept,  nor  so  assuredly  to  be  trusted, 
if  and  when  a  man  hath  or  maie  nede  them.  Sy.  Comyn,  my 
man,  is  about  the  churche's  affayres  to  goe  toward  London  upon 


96  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

Frydaie  next.  If  your  Lordship  have  any  letters  or  busines 
that  he  can  doe,  I  dare  undertake  he  shall  doe  it  carefully  and 
faithfully.  Thus,  humbly  craving  pardon  if  I  have  exceeded, 
and  hoping  your  Lordship  will  impute  it  rather  to  the  plainnesse 
of  my  heart  toward  you  then  to  any  presumption,  I  wisslie  your 
Lordship  longe  to  live  and  prosper,  to  God's  glorie,  and  comfort 
of  all  this  province.     At  Duresme,  29  Jan.  1594. 

Your  Lordship^s  most  humble  assured  alwaies, 

ToBiE  Matthew. 

To  the  Right  Honorable  and  Right  Reverend  Father  in 
God,  the  Lord  Bushop  of  Duresme,  my  verie  good 
Lord,  at  Awkeland. 

(Seal  of  arms.) 


LETTER  XLIL 

PART    OF    THE    BTSHOP's   SECOND    LETTER,  WRIT    FEBRUARY    FOL- 
LOWING,    WHEN    THE    BISHOP    WAS    REMOVING    TO    YORK."" 

Fkb.  1594-5. 

Now,  because  I  am  presently  to  leave  this  country,  I  am  bold 
still  to  recommend  unto  your  good  Lordship  the  pitiful  state  of 
the  Lady  Margaret  Nevyl,  daughter  to  the  unfortunate  Earl  of 
Westmerland,  prisoner  in  my  house,  and  condemned  to  die  for 
being  in  company  with  Boast  the  seminary  priest.  She  is 
wholly  reformed  in  religion.  She  sore  lamenteth  with  tears  that 
she  hath  oftended  so  gracious  a  Sovereign  and  her  laws.  It  is  an 
honourable  deed,  in  my  opinion,  beseeming  your  Lordship,  with 
favour,  to  prefer  her  humble  suit  unto  her  Majesty.  Your  Lord- 
ship knoAt^eth  that  she  is  descended  of  divers  noble  houses  in  the 
memory  of  man  ;  of  the  house  of  Buckingham,  Norfolk,  West- 
merland, and  Rutland.  And  now  behold  the  instability  of  all 
human  things  !  Two  of  them  are  utterly  overthrown  ;  only  one 
standeth  unspotted  ;  and  she  herself,  a  poor  maid,  condemned  to 
die.  I  do  assure  myself,  that,  if  her  Highness  were  truly  in- 
formed of  her  lamentable  state  and  true  repentance,  she  would 

-"  From  Strype's  Annals,  iv.  p.  199. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  9/ 

take  pity  and  compassion  on  her,  and  so  make  known  unto  the 
world  that  she  maketh  a  difference  between  her  and  her  two 
obstinate  sisters.  She  hath  confessed  unto  me,  and  I  verily 
believe  it  to  be  true,  that  partly  want  did  cause  her  to  wade  to 
woe.  For  whereas  the  great  offence  of  her  father,  her  Highness 
most  graciously  allowed  unto  her  mother  300^.  a  year  for  herself 
and  her  three  children,  whereof  33^.  6s.  8d.  was  by  M'.  Clopton, 
her  Majesty's  Receiver  here,  paid  unto  her  yearly  ;  so  it  is,  that 
since  the  death  of  her  mother,  and  somewhat  before,  the  same 
annuity  was  not  paid  unto  her.  By  occasion  whereof  she  fell  to 
converse  with  the  Papists  for  relief  first,  and  so  little  by  little 
did  forsake  both  her  religion  to  God  and  her  loyalty  to  her 
Sovereign  ;  for  both  the  which  she  is  heartily  sorry,  and  most 
humbly  craveth  one  drop  of  her  Majesty's  mercy. 

I  have  writ  unto  M^  Roger  Manners,  her  great-uncle,  to  com- 
mend her  humble  suit  unto  your  good  Lordship.  Thus,  beseech- 
ing God  to  bless  your  Lordship  with  his  manifold  graces  that 
you  may  yet  long  continue  a  most  Avise  and  faithful  counsellor 
unto  so  gracious  a  Sovereign,  I  humbly  take  my  leave. 
Your  Lordship's  bounden  in  Christ, 

Matth.  Dunelm. 

LETTER   XLIIL 

THE  HUMBLE  SUBMISSION  OF  MARGARET  NEVYL  TO  THE  QUEEN's 
MOST  EXCELLENT  MAJESTY,  ENCLOSED  IN  THE  FORMER 
LETTER.^^ 

14  Feb.  1594-5. 

Most  humbly,  with  tears,  beseecheth  your  Highness,  your 
]\Iajesty's  most  desolate,  jioor  subject,  Margaret  Nevyl,  one 
of  the  daughters  of  the  imfortunate  late  Earl  of  Westmerland, 
to  take  princely  pity  upon  my  lamentable  estate.  With  great 
grief  I  do  confess,  most  gracious  Sovereign,  that  sithence  the 
death  of  my  dear  mother,  having  no  part  of  that  allowance 
which  it  pleased  her  Majesty  graciously  to  bestow  upon  me,  nor 
any  other  maintenance,  I  was  even  forced  by  reason  of  great 
want  to  receive  relief  of  Papists,  by  whose  subtilty  my  needy 
simplicity  was  allured  from  mine  obedience  and  loyalty  to 
their    superstition    and   errors ;    and  so,    being    drawn   into    the 

"  Strype,  p.  200  ;  but  see  Sir  C.  Sharp's  Memorials  of  the  Rebellion  in  1569, 
p.  31.3. 

H 


98  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

company  of  a  seminary  priest,  I  was  condemned  at  tlie 
assizes  the  last  summer.  Being  destitute  of  help,  it  pleased  the 
good  Bisho])  of  Duresme,  at  the  motion  of  my  Lord  Treasurer 
and  the  judges,  to  take  me  into  his  house,  where  he  only  hath 
and  doth  yet  wholly  relieve,  and  hy  his  godly  and  sound  earnest 
instructions  he  hath,  I  most  humbly  praise  God,  fully  reformed 
me  in  religion  ;  which  by  God's  grace  I  shall,  with  all  obedience 
unto  your  Highness,  constantly  profess  while  I  live.  And  now, 
alas  !  this  pitiful  Bishop,  my  only  help,  is  very  shortly  to  leave 
this  country,  and  I  know  not  how  or  where  to  be  relieved. 
I  commend  my  case  and  woful  state  unto  God  and  your  Majesty; 
most  humbly  beseeching  your  Highness,  of  your  princely  and 
most  gracious  wonted  compassion,  to  be  merciful  unto  me,  a 
most  distressed  poor  maiden,  and  to  vouchsafe  me  your  most 
comfortable  pardon  for  my  life,  and  somewhat  also  for  my  relief; 
which  if  I  still  want,  my  life  will  be  no  life,  but  only  misery. 
So  shall  the  enemies  of  true  religion  have  no  cause  to  rejoyce  at 
my  woe ;  the  repenting  converts,  by  my  example,  will  be  com- 
forted ;  and  I,  as  most  bound,  shall  never  cease  with  them  to 
pray  for  your  Majesty"'s  most  happy  reign  in  all  wished  felicity, 
and  long  to  endure. 

Your  Majesty's  most  woful  poor  prisoner, 

Margarett  Nevyl, 
Feb.  14,  1594. 


LETTER  XLIV. 

HENRY    LORD    IIOWARDE    TO    MY    LORD    OF    DURESME. 

Feb.  20,  1594-5.     (869.) 

I  HAVE  SO  often  understood  of  your  Lordship's  kinde  and 
favorable  enclinacione  towarde  me,  that,  without  confession  of  a 
secrete  trespasse  in  myne  owne  inwarde  thought,  I  can  not  for- 
beare  to  showe  some  signe  of  thankefulnesse.  I  ever  honorid 
your  learninge,  whereof  I  was  a  witnesse  in  my  tender  yeares ; 
and  nowe  I  love  unfainedlie  that  milde  and  temperat  disposition 
which  manie  recommende  that  speake  of  your  dealinges  without 
partiality,  for  luippie  is  that  province  which  is  subjecte  to  a  pas- 
tore  no  lesse  pitifull  by  natur  then  profound  in  understandinge. 
Amonge  other  curtesies  which  touch  my  selfe,  I  can  not  forget 
your  honorable,   or   rather  fatherly,  dealinge  toward  my   poore 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  99 

neece'^^  who  maie  the  more  easihe  be  inducid  to  offend  e  uppon 
excesse  in  zeale,  byeause  she  wantes  the  salte  of  knowledge  that 
shonld  seasone  it.  As  thear  is  great  canse  whie  I  should  yeald 
manje  thankes  to  your  Lordship  for  your  favore  in  that,  so  have 
I  wretten  to  hir  selfe  also  to  moderate  hir  earnest  affection  with 
so  discreete  regarde  as  hir  frendes,  without  their  owne  danger 
ore  discredit,  may  be  able  at  all  tymes  to  pleasure  hir.  I  knowe 
manie  of  your  Lordship's  disposicion  that  is  unwilHnge  to  breake 
anie  twigge  that  will  be  bente ;  which  notwithstandinge,  for  de- 
faulte  of  wisdome  and  discretion  in  the  parties  whom  theie  wolde 
have  favorid,  have  bene  enforcid  to  beare  a  harder  hande  then 
by  theire  willes  theie  wolde  have  don.  I  doo  assure  my  selfe  my 
neece  is  none  of  theas ;  and,  that  she  maie  be  none,  my  naturall 
advise  and  care  shall  never  wante,  of  which  it  is  one  fi-ute  to 
recomende  hir  to  your  fatherly  protection.  Hir  disposition  is 
milde,  hir  actiones  honorable,  hir  minde  harmeless ;  and  therfor,  if 
your  Lordship  finde  in  hir  affection  aliquid  quod  redundet,  I 
doute  not  but  it  will  be  qualefied  by  curtesie,  and  brought  in 
tune  by  more  experience.  I  knowe  not  wheare  she  shoulde  finde  a 
better  guide  in  hir  course  then  my  selfe,  who  have  so  often  passid 
the  straightes  by  the  compasse  of  integrity.  I  wolde  have  writ- 
ten thankes  to  your  Lordship  before  this  time,  but  that  I  thought 
it  scante  good  manner  to  sende  salutaciones  out  of  ane  enfectid 
howse  ;  but  nowe  that  tyme  hath  thoroughly  refinid  me  from  base 
alayes  of  harde  conceites,  and  experience  hath  taught  that  your 
Lordship's  kinde  opinion  is  not  variable  accordinge  to  the  sea- 
sones  of  my  uncertaine  state,  I  am  the  bolder  to  drawe  you  for  a 
while  by  theas  posting  lynes  from  your  seriouse  affayres ;  remayn- 
inge  ever,  as  your  Lordship  hath  bounde  me  by  your  honorable 
dealinge,  at  your  commaundement.  Your  favore  to  my  poore 
neece  shall  be  ane  encrease  of  my  devotion  to  your  selfe.  And  so, 
with  most  kinde  wishes  of  all  happiuesse  to  your  Lordship,  as  to 
my  selfe,  I  take  my  leave,  this  20  of  February e. 

Your  Lordship's  assured  frend  to  his  power, 

H.  Howard. 
To  the  Reverende  Father  in  God,  my  vcrie  good  Lord, 
the  Bishoppe  of  Duresme. 
(The  whole  letter  apparently  in  Lord  Howard's  own  hand,  which  is  of  great 
regularity  and  beauty.     Seal  wanting.) 

^  The  Lady  Margaret  Neville  above  mentioned, 

H  2 


100  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  XLV. 

MATHEW  BUTTON,  ARCHBISHOP  OF  YORK,  TO  THE  LORD 
TREASURER,  IN  BEHALF  OF  THE  LADY  MARGARET  NEVIL, 
RECLAIMED    FROM    POPERY.^^ 

10  Ap.  1595. 

My  honourable  and  very  good  Lord,  Yesterday  in  the  afternoon 
I  was  at  your  Lordship's  lodging-  in  Court,  to  have  seen  and  certified 
your  Honour  (but  that  you  were  then  sitting  in  Council)  that  I 
had  been  with  her  most  excellent  Majesty,  making  petition  for 
the  poor  distressed  lady,  Margaret  Nevyl,  shewing  her  pitiful 
estate ;  that  she  is  wholly  reformed  in  religion,  most  peni- 
tent for  her  offence,  and  most  humbly  with  tears  beseech- 
eth  her  Highness'  most  gracious  pardon  for  her  life,  with  some- 
what for  her  living.  It  pleased  her  Highness  to  vouchsafe 
me  a  gracious  speech,  saying  she  would  have  consideration  of 
the  petition.  Now  I  am  very  heartily  to  recommend  her  la- 
mentable case  unto  your  honourable  and  favourable  consideration, 
that  your  Lordship  would  vouchsafe  to  be  a  special  good  means 
for  this  poor  condemned  madam,  whom  many  godly  men  do 
greatly  pity,  and  I  have  been  willing  to  my  power  to  help. 
Your  good  Lordship,  in  my  opinion,  may  do  a  godly  deed,  and 
make  many  of  her  honourable  and  good  friends  bound  to 
your  Lordship  in  her  behalf.  And  truly,  my  good  Lord,  as  I 
thank  God  I  was  a  means  to  do  good  to  her  soul,  (whose  ex- 
ample may  happily  do  good  to  others,)  so  I  would  be  right  glad 
it  would  please  her  Majesty  to  shew  to  the  world  that  she  put- 
teth  great  difference  between  her  that  is  dutiful,  and  her  two 
sisters  that  continue  obstinate. 

Thus,  sorry  that  I  have  been  so  troublesome  to  your  Lordship 
in  this  matter,  I  commend  your  Honour  to  the  blessed  direction 
of  the  Almighty.  From  Clianon  Row,  this  10th  of  April, 
1595. 

Your  good  Lordship's  in  Christ  most  assured, 

Matth.  Ebor, 

23  Strype,  p.  253. 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  101 

LETTER  XLVI. 

SIR    ROB.    CECYLL    TO    MY    LORd's    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

16  April,  1595.     (546.) 

May  it  please  your  Grace.  Becawse  I  kiioe  it  was  and  shalbe 
her  Majestie's  honour  to  grace  so  reverent  a  prelate  as  your 
Grace  is,  especially  in  such  a  case  as  this,  I  have  thoght  good  to 
use  my  best  oportunity  to  remember  to  her  Majesty  the  pardon 
for  the  Lady  Nevyll,  by  whose  example  as  others  I  hope  may  be 
induced  to  shew  the  like  conformity,  so  will  this  her  Majestie's 
lenity  stopp  the  liing  tongs  of  them  that  wold  insinuate  by 
lybells  and  raylings  that  her  Majestie's  mercy  is  to  seldome 
shewed ;  whereof,  God  be  thanked,  no  kingdome  hath  under  any 
of  God's  ministers  ever  tasted  so  many  good  fruicts  :  and  therfore, 
seing  I  knew  it  wold  be  expected  that  you  shold  bring  it  with 
you  as  God's  instrument  of  this  woork,  I  was  glad  to  finish  it  so 
as  you  might  be  assured  to  affirme  that  it  was  don,  and  therfore 
have  I  thoght  it  not  amiss  by  these  presents  to  assure  your 
Grace  that  this  very  houre  her  Majesty  hath  signed  it  unto  me ; 
and,  but  that  I  do  knoe  it  must  pass  the  scales,  I  wold  have 
sent  it  after  you  with  this.  I  have  therfore  sent  it  to  M"". 
Roger  Manners,  who  I  think  wyll  cawse  it  to  be  followed.  If 
you  wyll  have  it  otherwise,  your  Grace  may  wryte  back ;  and  to 
whom  you  wyll  have  it  comitted  over,  it  shalbe.  Her  Majesty 
hath  also  promised  a  pension  of  40''  a-yeare,  which  I  will  also  see 
finished.  And  thus,  in  hast,  I  wash  your  Grace  a  good  journey, 
and  remaine  your  loving  poor  fi-eend  assuredly, 

Ro.  Cecyll. 

I  have  receaved  a  lettre  from  your  Grace  concerning  my  bro- 
ther Brook. 

For  her  Majesty's  affaires.  To  the  most  Reverend  fFather  in  God,  my  very 
good  Lord,  the  Lord  Archbushop  of  Yorke,  his  Grace  Metrapolitane  of 
England. 

Hast,  post  hast,  hast,  hast,  hast ! 

At  Whitehall,  16  April,  at  past  7  at  night. 

Ro,  Cecyll. 

(Seal  of  arms  quarterly.     The  letter  in  Cecill's  own  hand.) 


102  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


No.  XLVII. 

REASONS  FOR  JUSTIFICATION  OF  THE  NOW  LORD  ARCHBISSHOP's 
TITLE  AND  CLAIME  TO  ALL  PROFITTE  OF  THE  SPIRITUALI- 
TIES GROWNE  IN  TYME  OF  VACATION  OF  THE  SEE  OF  YORKE, 
BY    DEATH    OF    LORD    ARCHBISHOPE    SANDS. 

1.  First,  her  Majestie*'s  common  ecclesiasticall  law  of  the 
Church  of  Ingland,  confirmed  by  statute,  plainely  and  preciselie 
ordayneth  that  the  profitte  of  everie  cathedrall  church  cumminge  in 
tyme  of  vacacion  therof  shall  be  faithfullye  receved  and  restored 
by  gardians  of  spiritualities  to  the  next  succedinge  prelate. 

2.  The  same  law  farther  disanulleth  and  utterly  voydeth  all 
manner  privileges  and  customes  makinge  for  the  chapter's  pre- 
tensed  title  and  claime  therto,  and  expresly  ordereth  that  it 
shall  not  have  or  divide  such  j)rofitte  to  their  owne  uses,  under 
paines  of  suspension  ah  officio  et  heneficUs  untill  they  have  fully 
restored  the  same  by  them  received,  upon  their  reasonable  ex- 
penses first  allowed  ;  otherwise,  terminge  the  chapter's  detencion 
and  occupacion  therof  by  the  name  of  thefte,  dissipacion,  and 
dilapidacion. 

3.  The  predecessors  of  the  now  Lord  Archbishoije  have  (in 
liklywhood)  continually  from  tyme  to  tyme  made  some  claime  to 
the  said  vacacion,  and  have  had  accompt  and  profitte  thereof 
accordingely,  as  partly  appeareth  by  some  of  their  records 
yet  remayninge  to  be  seene ;  [1.]  as,  namely,  Wm.  Grenefield 
livinge  heare,  prelate  nexte  before  and  after  Clemens  V.,  (cheife 
declarer  and  confirmer  of  the  former  law  made  for  this  purpose,) 
directed  a  solempne  monicion  to  the  chapter  for  their  due  re- 
storinge  to  his  use  the  profitts  of  the  next  precedent  vacacion  by 
them  receyved,  under  paynes  aforesaid.  [2.]  The  verie  like 
alsoe  did  his  nexte  successor,  Wm.  Melton,  who  was  canon 
residenciarie  of  York  in  tyme  of  his  said  predecessor  and  vaca- 
cion. [S.]  Wm.  Zouch  then  immediatelie  succedinge  him,  and 
beinge  Deane  of  York  in  his  said  next  predecessor's  prelacie  and 
vacacion  therupon  ensuinge,  directed  his  commission  to  certaine 
persons  to  heare  and  take  accompte  of  the  chaptre  as  gardians 
of  the  spiritualities  for  the  last  vacacion  then  by  past,  and 
also  a  warrant  to  his  then  comissarie  of  thexchequer   for   im- 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  103 

plojinge  and  bestowinge  of  the  same  on  particular  uses  tlierin 
specified.  [4.]  His  next  successor,  Jlion  Tliorsby,  autorized 
his  vicar-generall  to  demaund  of  the  chaptre  due  restitution  and 
dehverye  of  all  records  and  other  his  rights  accordinglie.  [5.] 
Alsoe  Alex.  Nevill,  next  succedinge  him  in  the  see,  past  to  the 
chapter  a  formall  acquitance  for  the  last  vacacions,  expressinge 
two  severall  summes,  and  jDayment  thereof.  [6.]  John  Kempe 
alsoe  succedinge  him  (though  not  immediately)  made  a  proxy 
to  three  canons  of  this  church,  with  others,  to  require  of  the 
chaptre  his  recorde  and  vacacions ;  [7.]  as  also  did  George  Nevill 
(his  next  successor  but  one)  sufficiently  by  proxy  auctorize 
the  then  treasurer,  chauncellor,  archdeacon  of  Cleaveland,  and 
the  subtreasurer,  (all  canons  of  Yorke  church,)  and  other,  to 
demaund  of  the  chaptre  the  records  and  profitte  of  the  last 
vacacion.  [8.]  As  for  all  the  other  meane  and  subsequent 
archbishops  of  this  see,  they  have  been  thought  and  said  to  have 
in  some  sorte  required  and  received  of  the  chaptre  the  severall 
vacacions  next  before  goinge  respectively  ;  and  namely  Cardinall 
Wolsie,  and  his  next  successor  Edm.  Lee,  as  also  Edm.  Grindall 
and  Edwin  Sands,  next  predecessors  to  the  now  demaundante 
thereof. 

4.  Moreover,  the  said  chaptre  ever  hath  byn  and  still  is 
termed  in  all  writinges  and  judiciall  dealings  (for  tyme  of  vaca- 
cion of  the  see)  custodes  spiritualitatum,  wherby  is  declared 
their  offices  of  exercisinge  ecclesiasticall  jurisdiction  all  the  mean 
while,  and  of  receavinge  and  reservinge  the  profitte  therof,  and 
otherwise  growinge  by  the  spiritualities  thereof,  not  to  them- 
selves, but  to  the  next  successor  in  the  archbisshopperick,  as 
generally  appearetli  by  the  lawes  afore  cited  ;  and  more  parti- 
cularly by  the  ordinarie  provision  and  reservacion  of  yerelie  pen- 
sions (though  halfe-yerely  due,  and  paieable  in  seenetymes,)  forth 
of  everie  appropriacion,  wherin  this  clause  in  effect  is  insertid 
of  course,  viz.,  in  recompensationem  damni  et  la^sionis  ecclesise 
nostra,  &c.  talem,  vel  talem  pecunife  summam  ordinamus  nobis 
et  successoribus  persolvendam,  sede  plena,  decano  vero  et 
capitulo  tanquam  spiritualitatum  custodibus  sede  vacante,  futuro 
archiepiscopo  asservandam. 

It  is  farther  to  be  noted  and  considered  herein,  that  the 
chaptre  in  their  severall  confirmations  of  such  appropriacions 
have   also   expresly  provided  and  reserved    therout  severally  to 


104  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

themselves  for  ever  the  hke  annual  pensions,  though  most  com- 
monly after  the  rate  of  a  moyitie  of  the  summe  and  quantitie 
reserved  by  the  archbisshope  aforesaid. 


LETTER  XLVIII. 

A    LETTER     FROM     THE     ARCHBYSHOP    OF     CANTERBURY     TO     MY 
lord's  grace   of   YORKE. 

19  Aug.  1595. 

Salutem  in  Ohristo  !  My  very  good  Lord,  I  must  become 
-  an  earnest  suiter  to  you  in  the  behalf  of  M'.  Edvvyn  Sandys'* 
for  the  continuance  and  increase  of  your  Grace's  good  favor 
towards  him.  I  doubt  not  but  that  you  doe  hold  him  in  that 
accompt  which  hee  very  well  deserves.  Notwithstanding,  for  the 
great  care  which  I  have  that  he  may  doe  well  and  bee  incouraged 
by  all  meanes  in  his  good  and  studiouse  endevours,  I  praye  you 
most  hartelye  that  he  may  both  have  your  good  countenance  and 
comforte  in  those  partes,  and  cheeflye  that  for  such  leases  as  hee 
holdes  of  your  Grace  (being  the  chiefe  stay  of  his  lyving)  hee 
may  renue  them  at  your  handes  for  his  reasonable  ffine  with 
favoure.  I  doubte  not  but  my  request  will  seme  to  you  reason- 
able, and  the  gentleman  so  worthie  to  be  cherished  and  encou- 
raged, that  I  shall  not  need  to  use  with  you  anie  further  per- 
swasion.  And  so,  with  my  liartie  commendacions,  I  committ  yoAv 
to  the  tuicion  of  Allmightie  God.  From  Croydon,  the  xix"^  of 
August,  1595. 

Your  Grace's  loving  brother  in  Christe, 

Jo.  Cantuar. 

y^  I  pray  you  send  me  youre  resolution  (together  with  youre 
opinion  of  the  recantation)  of  these  poyntes  :  Ati  sola  Dei  volun- 
tas^ ahsque  respectu  aliquo  adpeccatum,  sit  causa  reprohationis  ? 

And  whether  yt  be  ether  hereticall  or  popisch  to  say,  quod 
electi  debent  esse  certi  de  salute,  sed  non  securi.     And  likewise  ; 

^''  Second  son  of  Arclibishop  Hutton's  predecessor  in  the  see  of  York,   and 
author  of  "  Europee  Speculum,"  &c.     See  Wood's  Athense,  i.  551. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  105 

quod  electi  possunt  cadere   totaliter  a  fide  ad  tempus,  sed  non 
finaliter. 

Thus,  Jo.  Cantuar. 

To  the  moste  Reverend  fFather  in  God,  my  verie  good  Lord 
and  brother,  the  Archbishopp  of  Yorke  his  Grace. 

(Seal  wanting.     The  postscript  and  the  two  signatures  in  the  hand-writing  of 

the  Archbishop.) 


LETTER  XLIX. 

CECYLL    LORD    BURGHLEY    TO    MY    LORd's    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

March  6,  1595-6.     (559.) 

May  it  please  your  Grace.  Yesterdaye  by  my  letters  I  ad- 
vertised my  expectation  to  have  hard  from  you  of  the  receipt  of 
the  Queue's  commission  ;  which  I  am  now  gladd  to  parceave,  by  a 
letter  syned  by  your  Grace  aud  the  rest  of  the  Queue's  learned 
Counsell  there  the  first  of  this  moneth,  that  the  same  commis- 
sion came  to  you  the  daye  before :  wherein  I  do  note  some  negli- 
gence of  the  poste,  for  I  did  entend  it  should  have  come  there 
some  dayes  before ;  but  I  am  gladd  that  it  served  to  hold  your 
sessions  the  first.  By  a  private  letter  of  your  Grace,  as  I  thynk 
written  at  the  same  tyme  (though  the  daye  be  not  dated  by  the 
negligence  of  your  Secretary),  I  parceave  you  have  made  sute  for 
the  comission  ecclesiasticall  3  quarters  of  a  yeare,  and  that  it 
no  we  remayneth  in  Doctor  C8esar''s  hand  un  syned,  whom  I  will 
dyrect  to  procure  it  to  be  syned.  Of  other  matters,  which  I  did 
impart  unto  you  by  my  letter  dated  yesterday,  I  require  some 
answer.  And  so  I  bid  your  Grace  verie  hartie  farewell.  From 
the  Court  at  Richmond,  the  vi"^  of  Marche,  1595. 

Your  Grace's  at  com  [mand], 

W.  BuRGHLEY. 

I  doubt  not  but  the  Receyvor  of  Yorkshire  hath  geven  order 
for  the  payment  of  money  for  the  dyette,  for  that  he  had  his 
warrant  both  for  that  which  was  done  in  the  Erl's  tyme,  and 
from  thence  forward.  But  I  take  it  that  hir  Majestic  meaneth 
not  to  be  at  charge  with  the  Erl's  howshold  servauntes  from  the 


106  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

tyme  of  this  your  commission,  and  so  it  is  reason  you  should 
give  them  waruinge ;  and  yett  I  pitty  their  estate,  considering  I 
can  fynd  nobody  to  take  care  for  the  buryall  of  their  master,  as 
yesterday  I  did  write  unto  you,  and  yett  I  am  desirous  to  hear 
from  you  how  the  body  of  the  nobleman  is  ordered,  and  where 
it  resteth,  and  what  uomber  they  are,  and  of  what  condicion,  that 
attend  the  same. 

To  the  nioste  Reverend  ffatlier  in  God,  my  varie  good 
Lord,  the  Archbisho]ip  of  York  his  Grace. 

(The  signature  and  commendatory  words  are  in  the  Earl's  own  hand.) 


LETTER  L. 


CECYLL    LORD    BURGIILEY    TO    MY    LORDS    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

April,  1596.     (551.) 

After  my  verie  commendacions  to  your  Grace  \slc\  and  to  the 
rest.  I  have  received  a  letter  of  the  xxiij*  of  this  monethe,  signed 
by  your  Grace  and  some  others  of  the  Counsell,  wherebie  yow 
certifie  unto  me  that  my  Lord  of  Huntingdon  hath  signified  unto 
yow  hir  Majestie's  pleisure  towelling  the  buryell  of  the  late  Erl 
of  Huntingdon's  body^^  at  Aslibie  in  Leicestershire,  which  I 
knowe  to  be  true,  and  to  be  donne  with  hir  Majestie's  verie  good 
liking  of  the  now  Erl  of  Huntingdon,  for  that  he  hath  under- 
taken to  performe  the  same ;  and  for  myne  owne  parte,  as  I  do 
thinke  that  it  is  verie  honorablie  donne  of  my  Lord,  and  the 
place  verie  fitt  for  the  buryall,  so  I  do  thinke  it  verie  well  donne 
of  yow,  M"^.  Puresye,  and  Mr.  Stanhopp,  if  yow  take  the  paynes 
to  repaire  to  Ashbie  with  such  of  the  late  Erl's  servaunts  as  may 
convenientlie  traveil  thither  to  performe  the  last  dutie  of  your 
love  towards  him.  And  whereas  I  fynd  by  your  letter  that  by 
reason  of  the  greate  uomber  of  the  late  ErFs  houshold  servaunts, 
and  longer  contynuance  of  them  together  then  was  thought,  the 
expences  have  growen  farr  greater  then  that  which  hath  bene 
received  from  hir  Majestie's  Receyvour  by  the  warrant  dyrected 
unto  him,  of  the  which  yow  require  to  have  allowance,  and  to 

"^  Late  President  of  the  Council  in  the  North. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  107 

have  order  given  for  the  payment  thereof,  that  remboursement 
may  be  made  to  the  late  Erl's  steward,  who  hath  disbursed  a 
good  some  of  money  for  their  dyett ;  I  can  make  no  other  answer 
hereunto  but  that  I  can  not  help  the  same  otherwise  then 
uppon  the  ordinarye,  and  therfore  do  wishe  that  good  husbandrie 
may  be  used  hereafter  to  repayre  and  recover  the  former  ex- 
pences.  And,  as  towelling  the  place  where  the  dyett  shalbe 
provided  for  that  Counsell  at  their  sitting,  (which  hitherto  hath 
bene,  as  yow  write,  in  the  minster  garthe,)  I  am  of  opynion  that 
it  is  more  convenient  to  be  kept  within  hir  Majestie's  howse,  the 
late  Erl's  good  being  safelye  lockd  upp  in  some  private  place,  as 
your  Grace  writes  ;  and  therfore  I  do  require  your  Grace  that 
order  may  be  taken  accordinglie.  And,  lastlie,  towching  your 
Grace's  private  letter  to  me,  wherein  your  Grace  doth  earnestlie 
wishe  and  desire  (for  the  reasons  therein  sett  downe)  that  there 
may  be  some  fitt  nobleman  appointed  by  hir  Majestic  and  sent 
downe  to  be  President  and  Liuetenant  there,  your  Grace  shall 
understand  that  I  do  as  earnestlie  desire  it  as  your  Grace  doth, 
and  will  further  it  the  best  I  can  ;  but,  by  reason  of  my  want  of 
healthe,  can  neither  do  it  nor  write  unto  your  Grace  as  frequentlie 
as  otherwise  I  would  do,  wherein  I  pray  your  Grace  to  hold  me 
excused.  And  so  I  bidd  your  Grace  verie  hartely  farewell. 
From  the  Courte  at  Grenewiche,  the  of  April,  1596. 

Your  Grace's  verie  lovinge  frend, 

W.    BuRGHLEY. 

To  the  most  Reverend  ffather  in  God,  my  verie  good  Lord, 
the  Archbishop  of  Yorke  his  Grace,  and  to  the  Counsell 
established  in  the  northe  parts. 

(Signature  in  the  Earl's  hand.     Wafer  seal  of  arms,  with  motto  of  the  Garter.) 

A  ' 


108  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

LETTER   LI. 

CECYLL    LORD    BURGHLEY    TO    MY    LORD's    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

Maie  15,  1596.     (552.) 

After  my  verie  hartie  commendacions  to  your  Grace.  As  it 
hath  bene  thought  good  and  expedient  that  no  we,  uppon  the 
departure  of  hir  Majestie's  royall  navie  at  sea,  under  the  conduct 
of  the  Erl  of  Essex  and  H.  Admirale,  that  some  declaration 
shouki  be  pubhshed  in  prynt  to  the  world  of  the  causes  moving 
hir  Majestie  thereunto,  for  the  manifestation  of  the  justnes  of 
hir  procedinge  ;  so  I  have  thought  good  to  send  unto  your 
Grace  S  of  them,  2  in  Englishe  and  one  in  Latyn,  both  for  your 
Grace's  owne  satisfaction  and  for  the  better  notifying  the  same 
unto  that  countrie,  who  wilbe  gladd  to  heare  of  it,  and  by  your 
Grace's  report  will  quicklie  and  easilye  be  divulged  thereaboute. 
And  so,  not  doubting  but  that  our  armye  shall  have  your 
Grace's  good  prayers  to  God  for  their  good  successe  in  this  ex- 
pedition againste  his  professed  ennemyse  and  ours,  I  bidd  your 
Grace  verie  hartely  farewell.  From  the  Court  at  Grenewich, 
the  XV*  of  Maye,  1596. 

Your  Grace's  verie  assured  lovinge  frend, 

W.    BuRGHLEY. 

Fo7'  hir  Majestie  s  spetiall  ciffayres. 

To  the  moste  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  verye  good  Lord, 
the  Archbishopp  of  Yorke  his  Grace. 

W.  Burg/iley. 

15  May,  '96,  8  at  nighte. 
Hast,  hast,  post  hast ! 

(The  signature,  and  the  words  in  the  direction  in  italics,  are  in  Lord  Burgh- 
ley's  own  hand.  The  following  notices  of  post-masters  are  endorsed  on  the 
letter. 

Hertford,  the  16,  att  past  8  mornen. 
Roystone,  the  16  Maye,  at  2  afternoone. 
Stilton,  the  16,  at  10  in  the  night.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  109 


LETTER  LIL 

LORD    BURGLEY    TO    MY    LORd's    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

Maie  20,  1596.     (549.) 

After  my  verie  hartie  commendacions  to  your  Grace.  I  have 
received  your  Grace's  letter  of  the  xv""  of  this  monethe,  together 
with  the  coppie  of  Sir  Chr.  Hylliard's  letter  to  yow  and  that 
Counsell,  inferinge  that  a  certein  Scottishman  (as  was  suspected), 
by  the  meanes  of  one  Richard  Beningham,  a  bad  fellowe,  had 
taken  into  his  shipp,  lying  nere  the  Spurne  within  Humber,  a 
0.  quarters  of  beanes,  which  he  meant  to  have  stayd,  supposing 
he  had  no  lycence  to  transport  them  ;  wherein  what  is  the  trothe 
I  knowe  not.  But  this  I  thought  good  to  lett  your  Grace  un- 
derstand, that  I  have  of  late  graunted  severall  warrants  for 
transportacion  of  a  good  round  quantitie  of  beanes  and  pease 
into  Scotland,  whereof  the  greatest  part  was  by  hir  Majestie's 
lycence,  graunted  at  the  suite  of  the  Scottishe  Ambasseder  now 
residing  here ;  a  part  also  was  graunted  to  one  Hunter,  a  Scot- 
tishman, in  lieu  of  a  lycence  graunted  to  him  above  a  yeare  past 
for  the  transportacion  of  v'".  quarters  of  wheate,  whereof  he  never 
took  any  benefitt ;  and  another  part  unto  2  merchaunts  of  Hull, 
uppon  good  and  reasonable  cause,  being  recommended  to  me 
from  the  Maior  and  Aldermen  of  that  towne.  Nevertheles  your 
Grace  shall  understand  that  I  had  not  assented  to  any  trans- 
portacion at  all,  if  I  had  not  formerlie  received  letters  from  the 
Maior,  Aldermen,  and  Officers  of  the  towne  of  Hull,  that  there 
was  not  onlie  greate  plentie  of  that  grayne  there  in  these  parts, 
which  might  well  be  spared,  and  the  prises  at  so  lowe  a  rate  as 
it  might  be  transported  without  any  hurt  to  the  countrie,  but 
also  that  there  were  many  Scotts  there  that  had  browght  in 
good  comodities,  and  had  no  other  comoditie  to  imploye  their 
money  in  but  in  beanes  and  pease.  I  received  also,  synce  that 
time,  a  letter  from  diverse  Justics  of  peace,  both  of  that  countie, 
and  Yorke,  and  Lincoln,  as  namelie,  M"".  Pellham,  M',  Hotham, 
M'.  Skippwithe,  JM'.  Gats,  and  M'.  Aired,  agreing  in  report 
with  the  others  towelling  the  plentie  of  that  grayne  and  the 
lowe   prises  thereof,    and   that   it    would    be  a  benefitt  to  the 


110  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

countrle  and  to  the  poore  husbandmen  thereahoute  to  have 
lyeence  to  transport  the  same  ;  and  this  was  the  cause  that  moved 
me  to  graunt  the  said  warrants.  Nevertheles  I  added  a  proviso, 
that,  uppon  informacion  that  the  prises  of  the  said  grayne  should 
be  enhansed  by  reason  of  the  said  lycences,  I  would  take  order 
for  the  staye  of  them.  From  my  howse  at  Westminster,  the 
XX*  of  Maye,  1596. 

Your  Grace's  verie  lovinge  frend, 

W.  BuRGHLEY. 

Postcript. — Towelling  the  defects  of  beacons,  pouder,  piks,  etc., 
mencioned  in  the  end  of  Sir  Oh.  Hylliard's  letter,  I  thiuke  the 
towne  of  Hull  either  are  bound,  or  in  reason  ought,  to  supplie 
them,  in  respect  of  the  benefitt  they  receyve  from  hir  Majestic  ; 
I  therfore  pray  your  Grace  send  for  some  of  them  (which  yow 
shall  think  fitt)  and  deale  with  them  to  that  end,  or  otherwise  lett 
me  understand  from  yow  your  opynion  by  whom  it  is  fitt  they 
should  be  supplied. 

To  the  mostc  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  verie  good  Lord, 
the  Archbishopp  of  Yorke  Ids  Grace. 

(The  signature  in  Lord  Burghley's  hand.     Seal  as  before.) 


LETTER  LIII. 


LORD    EGERTON    TO    MY    LORD  S    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

22  June,  1596.     (873.) 

My  very  good  Lord,  I  geve  you  very  hartie  thanks  for  the 
honorable  and  favovirable  regarde  which  yt  pleaseth  your  Grace 
to  have  of  my  sut  to  be  your  tenant  of  your  house  neere  Oharinge 
Crosse.  I  am  unwillinge  to  contende  with  competitors,  or  to 
liyndr  your  Grace  from  pleasuringe  any  your  good  frendes  who 
are  better  liable  to  stande  you  in  stede  then  I  can  be  ;  but  her 
Majestie's  soden  callinge  me  to  this  unexpected  place  leaveth  me 
yet  utterlye  unprovided  of  any  house  at  all,  and  therfore  am 
in  manner  constreyned  to  mak  this  sut  unto  you,  how  inconve- 
nient so  ever  yt  maye  be  for  my  weake  healthe,  or  otherwyse.  Yf 
I  can  yet  otherwyse  provide  my  selfe,  I  wyll  moost  wyllinglye 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  Ill 

cease  my  sute,  and  gyve  place  to  whomsoever  you  shall  appoynt. 
But  yf  necessitye  inforce  me,  for  her  Majestie's  service,  to  con- 
tynue  my  former  requeste,  I  hope  you  will  be  contented  to  ac- 
cepte  of  so  yll  a  tenante,  who  wyll  ever  endeavour  thankfullye  to 
acknowledg'  and  requyte  your  frendlye  kyndnes.  And  so,  with 
my  hartie  commendacions,  I  committ  your  Grace  to  the  Al- 
mig-htye.     At  the  Rolles,  22  Junij,  1596. 

Your  Grace''s  very  assured  lovinge  frende, 

Tho.  Egerton,  C.  S. 

To  the  most  Reverende  Father  in  God,  my  Lord  Archbyshoppe 
of  Yorke  his  Grace. 

(Armorial  seal  in  wax.) 


LETTER  LIV. 


CECYLL    LORD    BURGHLEY    TO    MY    LORD  S    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

Aug.  2,  1596.     (548.) 

Maie  it  please  your  Grace,  By  your  late  lettres  I  perceave 
what  a  good  Christian  act  yow  have  done  in  reducing  of  the 
Popish  priest  Dawson  from  his  errors,  who,  lewdlie  denying  the 
authorities  by  your  Grace  alledged  against  him,  in  the  end  was 
justlie  convinced.  And  bycause  no  mention  is  made  in  your 
lettres  of  his  blind  reasons  for  his  defence,  nor  of  your  assertions 
of  authorities  to  disprove  him,  I  am  desirous  to  have  a  report  of 
them ;  both  for  my  better  informacion,  wherein  I  pray  your  Grace 
to  satisfy  me  by  your  next  writings ;  and  likewise  of  his  manner 
of  acknowledging  his  error,  and  profession  of  amendement  under 
his  hand  writing.  I  desire  also  to  heare  from  your  Grace  the 
particular  aunswers  made  to  such  articles  of  complaints  as  I  did 
send  unto  yow,  conteyning  the  greevances  of  the  country,  against 
many  proceedings  of  that  Oounsell ;  wherein  if  yow  have  satisfyed 
the  justices  of  assise,  I  am  verie  glad,  for  I  assure  your  Grace 
some  of  them  made  the  like  complaint  to  mee.  The  good  newes 
that  are  commonlie  reported  of  the  great  victorie  of  liir  Majestie's 
army  and  navy  in  Spayne  is  so  certainlie  confirmed  by  the  ge- 
neralls  as  it  is  ment  that  both  in  the  province  of  Canterbury  and 
of  yours  at  York  there  should  be  publick  prayer  and  thankes- 


112  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

giving  for  the  same,  whereof  your  Grace  shall  shortlie  heare. 
And  so  I  comend  mee  verie  hartelie  to  your  Grace.  From  the 
Court,  the  2  of  August,  1596. 

Your  Grace's  assured  loving  frend, 

W.  BURGHLEY. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  veary  good  Lord, 
the  Archbisliop's  Grace  of  York. 

(Signature,  and  the  five  preceding  words  in  Lord  Burghley's  hand. 
Seal  as  above.) 


LETTER  LV. 


CECYLL  LORD  BURGHLEY  TO  MY  LORD  S  GRACE  OF  YORKE. 
30  Jan.  1596-7.  (547.) 

May  it  please  your  Grace.  I  have  by  M\  Feme  recyved 
your  Grace's  lettres  of  the  8^^  of  this  monethe,  wherby  you  do 
advertise  me  of  lettres  you  have  recyved  from  the  Lord  Kejjer  of 
the  greate  seale,  whereby  he  sheweth  a  dislike  that  your  Grace 
and  the  Oounsell  should  dyrect  proces  to  staye  suites  commenced 
in  the  Chauncerye  ;  wherein  you  have  written  to  his  Lordship  for 
your  defence  that  it  hath  bene  so  used  by  the  Court  in  former 
tymes.  And  hearein  I  have  had  some  speache  with  M"".  Feme, 
and  have  shewed  my  opynion  that  I  thinke  it  against  good  reason, 
that  where  a  suite  is  begonne  in  the  Chauncery  by  any  plantife, 
that  he  should  be  restrayned  from  following  his  suite  at  the 
request  of  the  defendant ;  which  my  conceipt  hath  moved  me  to 
forbeare  herein  to  deale  with  my  Lord  Keper.  But  if  M"". 
Feme  shall,  as  he  saith  he  will,  shewe  me  some  presidente  of 
the  yelding  of  the  Chauncery  to  such  request,  I  will  theruppon 
deale  with  my  Lord  Keper,  having  some  coulour  therby  to 
presse  the  same ;  otherwise  I  shalbe  loath  to  deale,  contrary  to 
myne  owne  opynion.  I  wish  hir  Majestic  would  provide  you 
of  some  noble  man  sufficient  for  authoritie  and  wisdome  to  be 
the  president  there  of  that  Counsell  ;  but  hir  INlajestie  in  this 
and  like  causes  delayeth  her  resolution  for  want,  as  is  sup- 
posed, of  mete  persons  for  such  offices,  wherof  I  am  sory  to 
see  such  scarsitie,  as  is  over  apparant :    yett  I  will  not  fayle  to 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC,  113 

sollicite  hir  Majestie  to  determyne  hereuppon.  And  so,  referring 
tlie  report  of  suclie  g-ood  newes  as  M'.  Feme  can  bring  you  of 
an  overthrow  given  by  Count  Morriee  and  other  Englishe  forces 
comanded  by  Sir  Robert  Sidney  and  Sir  Frauncis  Vere  of  a 
nomber  of  the  King  of  Spayn's  auncient  soldiars,  as  the  hke 
hath  not  happened  with  such  successe  to  the  states  synce  the 
begyning  of  their  warrs,  I  bidd  your  Grace  verie  hartely  fare- 
well. From  the  Court  at  Whitehall,  the  xxx*''  of  Jan.  1596. 
Your  Grace's  assuredly  at  command, 

W.  BuRGHLEY. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  verye  good  Lord, 
the  Archbishopp  of  Yorke  his  Grace. 

(The  signature,  and  the  words    You?'  Grace's  assuredly  at  command,  in  the  hand 
of  Lord  Burghley.     Seal  as  above.) 


LETTER  LVI. 


LETTER    FROM    ARCHBISHOP    HUTTON    TO    LORD    BURGHLEY, 
TOUCHING    A    LORD    PRESIDENT,    ETC.;    PER    MR.  COLE. 

11  March,  1596-7. 

(From  a  draught  in  the  liand  of  the  Archhisliop.) 

My  most  honorable  good  Lord,  I  have  beene  often  times 
bold  to  pray  your  good  Lordship  to  move  her  Majestie  for  a  Lord 
President  here.  In  your  last  letters  you  shewe  as  the  cheffe 
cause  that  her  Highnes  doth  not  resolve  to  be  the  great  want 
olF  fitt  men  for  that  place.  I  am  right  sorie  to  know  so  much 
myself,  sed  in  eo  noii  sunt  omnia  ;  but  rather  this  is  the  chefe  cause, 
that,  the  ranke  of  nobilitie  beinge  taken  away  whom  her  Ma- 
jestie founde  at  the  beginninge  oiF  her  reigne,  the  nobilitie  that 
now  is  growinge  up  under  her  shee  by  her  great  wisdome  and 
experience  doth  know  them  intus  et  in  cute,  themselfes,  their 
families,  ther  defects  and  informities  whatsoever :  but,  under 
reservation,  this  oght  not  to  cause  her  Majestie  to  be  so  irre- 
solute ;  for,  as  Solomon  saith,  qui  ohservat  ventuni  non  seminabif,  et 
qui  considerat  nuhes  non  metet.  For  I  make  no  doubt  but  yf  it 
please  her  Highnes  to  resolve,  her  Majestie's  commission,  the 
instructions,  the  ordiuarie  proceedings   in  this  court   knowen  to 

1 


114  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

the  learned  Connsell  here,  will  sufRcientlie  inhahle  him.  My 
Lord  of  Huntingdon  when  he  came  downe  here  was  verie  raw, 
but,  havinge  a  resolute  wit  to  serve  God  and  her  Majestie,  he 
grewe  to  great  experience ;  so,  no  dowte,  yf  her  Majestie  resolve 
off  anie  that  feareth  God  and  loveth  the  present  state,  God  will 
inhable  him.  Thus,  beseeching  God  to  blesse  her  Majestie  and 
the  whole  realme  with  your  Lordship's  long  life  and  good 
health,  I  humblie  take  my  leave.     March  11,  1596. 

Post  Script. — I  pray  you  to  be  a  mean  that  there  be  no  amo- 
vation  in  the  office  of  the  examiners  here,  and  vouchsafe  this 
bearer,  M".  Cole,  your  Lordshiji's  favour. 


LETTER  LVII. 

SIR    ROB.    CECYLL    TO    MY    LORD's    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

March  18,  1596-7.     (545.) 

My  good  Lorde,  I  have  made  knowen  to  her  Majestie  with 
what  willingnes  you  have  performed  to  my  brother-in-lawe '^ 
what  formerly  you  had  promised  to  her  Majestie,  and  howe 
in  every  circumstance  you  have  shewed  bothe  regarde  to  her 
pleasure  and  affection  to  the  persone  recommended.  I  am 
commanded  for  this  to  be  the  messenger  of  her  JNIajestie's 
gratious  acceptation,  as  a  thinge  exceedinglie  pleasinge  her, 
the  rather  for  that  by  your  voluntarie  and  speedie  perform- 
ance her  Majestie  had  present  opportunitie,  thoughe  in  a  trifle, 
to  give  comfort  to  the  younge  gentleman  in  the  instant  of  his 
great  losses  of  his  best  and  dearest  frendes ;  wherin  as  I 
confesse  my  spirit  and  body  dotlie  participate  with  a  feelinge 
(secundum  naturam)  insupportable,  so  do  I  confesse  myself 
interessed  in  an  exceeding  obligation  of  gratefulnes  to  you, 
as  being  done  to  him  Avhom  for  his  neernes  in  bloodd  and 
vertue  to  my  deare  wief  I  can  but  hold  in  principall  accoumpt ; 
the  requittall  wherof  I  shall  make  good  to  you  whensoever 
opportunitie  shall  afforde  me  occasion.     And  so   for  this  tyme 

*«  Mr.  Georo-e  Brooke.— M.  F. 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  115 

I  .take    my  leave.      From    the   Court,   tliis    xviij*''  of  Marehe, 
1596. 

Your  Grace's  poore  frende  at  command, 

Ro.  Cecyll. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  very  good  Lorde, 
the  Lorde  Archbushoppe  of  Yorke  his  Grace. 

(Seal  wanting.     Signature  only  in  the  hand  of  Cecyll.) 


LETTER  LVIII. 

LORD  BURGHLEY  TO  MY  LORD's  GRACE  OF  YORKE  AND  THE 
COUNCILL  THERE. 

March  19,  1596-7.  (550.) 

After  my  vearie  hartie  commendacions  to  your  Grace  and 
the  rest.  I  have  received  your  letters  written  the  xi'^  of  this 
monethe,  mentioninge  the  apprehencion  of  one  Joseph  Constable, 
a  brother  of  Sir  Henry  Constable^s,  with  some  others  with  him, 
beinge,  as  it  semeth,  common  receivers  of  seminaries  and  such 
like  bad  persons ;  movinge  mee  by  the  same  your  letter  to  direct 
youe  mine  opinion  in  what  corse  and  with  what  speed  yow  should 
proceade  against  the  said  Constable  ;  whearein  I  cannot  direct 
youe  aniethinge,  but  must  leave  the  same  to  your  selves :  onelie 
I  have  thowght  good  to  lett  youe  understand,  that  uppon  the 
dowbt  conceived  by  you,  Mr.  Ferne"^,  of  the  validitie  of  his 
inditement,  I  have,  in  the  absence  of  the  judges,  required  the 
opinion  of  hir  Majestie's  attorney-generall ;  whose  awnsweare 
yow  shall  perceive  by  his  letter  to  mee,  which  I  doe  send 
heare  inclosed  to  yow,  with  the  copie  of  his  inditement,  by 
which  yow  will  finde  the  same  to  be  erronious.  And  wheare 
yowe  require  to  understand  mine  opinion  for  his  sendinge  upp, 
I  see  noe  such  cawse  to  have  him  to  be  sent  hither.     And  so 

^'^  Sir  John  Feme,  who  has  been  already  mentioned  in  Archbishop  Hutton's 
correspondence,  was  Secretary  and  Keeper  of  the  Signet  to  the  Council  of  the 
North,  and  the  author  of  that  singularly  cuiious  book,  "  The  Blazon  of  Gen- 
trie."     For  a  concise  but  interesting  account  of  Feme  and  his  book,  see  Mr. 

Hunter's  South  Yorkshire,  i.  31. 

I  2 


116  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

I   bid  your   Grace   and  tlie  rest  hartelie   faij^vvell.      From  my 
howse  in  the  Strand,  this  xix*  of  Marche,  1596. 

Your  Grace's  assured  lovinge  frend, 

W.  BURGHLEY. 

Your  Grace's  letter  to  me,  shewyng  your  desyre  and  opinion 
for  a  President,  hath  bene  greatly  lyked  by  hir  Majesty  for 
your  syncere  advice. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  verie  good  Lord, 
the  Archbishop  of  Yorke,  and  the  rest  of  the  Counsell 
there. 
(The  signature  and  postscript  in  Lord  Burghlcy's  hand-writing.) 


LETTER  LIX. 


CECYLL    LORD     BURGHLEY    TO    MY    LORD  S    GRACE    OF    YORKE 
AND    THE    COUNSELL    THERE. 

April  13,  1597.     (544.) 

After  my  vearie  hartie  commendacions  to  your  Grace  and 
the  rest.  Theare  hath  been  much  suite  heare  made  by  some  to 
hir  Majesty  to  have  a  graunt  of  their  places  by  patent  which 
are  appointed  examiners,  havinge  aforetime  been  in  the  dis- 
posicion  of  him  that  held  the  place  of  the  Lord  President  of 
that  Counsell ;  and  so  in  mine  opinion  have  I  thowght  it  fitt 
to  have  them  continued,  neither  have  I  given  anie  allowance 
to  such  suites  preferred.  And  whereas  this  vearie  John  Cole 
hath,  I  understand,  executed  honestlie  the  one  of  these  places 
in  the  late  Lord  President's  time,  so  doe  I  knowe  noe  just 
cause  to  have  him  displaced,  but  wishe  him  to  be  continued 
thearein,  unless  your  Grace  have  found  cause  to  the  contrarie. 
And  so  I  vearie  hartelie  commend  race  to  yowe.  From  the 
Cort,  this  xiii*^  of  Aprill,  1597. 

Your  Grace's  assured  lovinge  friend, 

W.   BuRGHLEY. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  vearie  good  Lord, 
the  Archbishop's  Grace  of  Yorke,  and  to  the  Counsell 
til  care. 

(Signature  in  the  Earl's  own  hand.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  117 


LETTER  LX. 


WHYTGYFT,    ARCHBISHOP    OF    CANTERBURY,    [tO    THE    ARCH- 
BISHOP   OF    YORK.] 

2  May,  1597. 

Salutem  in  Ohristo  !  It  liatli  pleased  her  Majesty  to  bestowe 
the  bishoprick  of  London  upon  D"^,  Bancroft;  the  bishoprick 
of  Winchester  upon  D^  Bilson,  Bishop  of  Worcester  ;  and  the 
bishoprick  of  Chester  upon  D"^.  Vaughan,  now  Bishop  of 
Bangor.  And,  forasmuch  as  it  would  be  verye  great  trouble 
and  charges  to  him  to  come  or  send  downe  for  his  confirmation 
there,  he  hath  intreated  mee  to  move  you  to  be  content  to  direct 
your  commission  to  some  here  for  the  perfourming  of  the  same  ; 
which  you  may  very  well  doe  to  some  of  the  doctors  of  the 
Arches,  suche  as  you  shall  best  lyke  of.  The  bishoprick  is  but 
small,  and  your  Lordship  knoweth  that  after  his  confirmation 
he  must  doe  his  homage  here  in  person,  and  take  care  for  his 
restitution  ;  and  therefore  I  hartelye  praye  yow  to  showe  unto 
him  what  favor  you  may. 

The  last  lettres  written  from  your  selfe  and  the  Councell  there, 
touching  certeyn  papists  and  recusants,  are  very  well  taken,  and 
you  are  lyke  to  receave  thancks  for  the  same,  especiallie  for 
your  paynes  in  conference  with  some  of  them  to  so  good  an 
effect.  In  one  of  the  lettres  there  was  putt  Christes-tyde  for 
Ohristen-mass,  which  because  of  the  noveltie  thereof  (being 
latelye  used  onely  by  some  nice  persons  more  curiouse  in 
termes  then  in  deeds)  was  by  some  of  your  best  frends 
mislyked;  and  I  marvell  how  it  escaped  you,  being  so  farre 
from  allowing  suche  novelties.  Our  brother,  your  successor^*^, 
hath  scarcelye  delt  brotherlie  with  mee  in  some  lettres  latelye 
written  concerning  Tempesfs  wiffe  and  Hedleyes  of  Newcastle  ; 
but  of  suche  dealings  I  make  small  accompte.  I  have  no 
especiall  uewes  to  write  unto  you.     Rumors  and  reportes  varie 

«8  D'.  Tobie  Matthew,  Bishop  of  Durham. 


118  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

daylie.     Vale  in  Christo  !     At  Lambeth,  the  second  of   May, 

1597. 

Your  Grace's  assured  loving  frend  and  brother, 

Jo.  Cantuar. 

To  the  moste  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  very  good  Lord 
and  brother,  the  Archbishoppe  of  Yorke  his  Grace. 

(Seal  wanting.     The  words  "  Vale  in  Christo"  and  the  signature  in  the  hand 
of  the  Archbishop.) 


LETTER  LXI. 


LORD     KEEPER,     LORD     TREASORER,     MR.    SECRETARY      CECYLL, 
DIRECTIONS    FOR    RECEIVING    THE    20   SCOTTISH    PLEDGES.'^^ 

30  September,  1597. 

After  our  hartie  commendacions  to  your  Lordship.  By 
your  lettre  of  the  xxvi*^  of  September  wee  understand,  that, 
the  same  daie  at  night,  yowe  received  lettres  from  the  Bishop 
of  Durham  and  Sir  William  Bowes,  dated  the  xxiij,  by 
which  yowe  are  required  to  give  commandment  to  the  Sherif 
of  Yorkeshire  to  be  at  Orofte  Bridge  with  sum  nombre  of 
men  to  receive  the  bodies  of  abowt  xx  pledges  at  the  handes 
of  the  Sherif  of  the  Bushoprick  on  the  second  of  this  next 
monethe,  and  safelie  to  conduct  them  to  Yorke,  wheare  it  is 
required  theie  might  be  kept  in  safe  custodie  untill  the  Queen's 
plesure  might  be  signified ;  wheareuppon  yowe  did  require  to 
have  our  direction.  For  awnswere  wheareunto,  your  lettre  beinge 
browght  to  us  but  this  daie,  being  the  last  of  this  moneth, 
wee  are  sorie  that  we  cannot  within  the  time  prescribed 
satisfie  the  request.  Neverthelis,  wee  lett  yowe  knowe  our 
opinion   to  be,  that  this  xx  persons  beinge  browght   to  York, 

*^  With  respect  to  these  Scottish  pledges,  see  Ridpath's  Border  History  of 
England  and  Scotland,  p.  695,  &c.  This  and  such  of  the  following  letters  as 
refer  to  that  subject  are  of  importance  in  confirming  Ridpath's  conjectures, 
proving,  as  they  do,  that  Sir  Robert  Ker's  obsidiary  durance  extended  to  a  longer 
period  than  a  "  few  days  ;"  and,  in  addition  to  the  information  which  they 
afford  with  respect  to  Kcr  himself,  we  have  here  many  curious  particulars  with 
reference  to  his  fellow-hostages. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  119 

beinge  Scottishmen,  would  be  placed  in  sondrie  places  within 
that  shire,  for  that  the  nomber  is  to  great  to  be  kept  together 
in  one  place,  as  wee  thinke  your  selvis  will  so  consider.  And 
therefore  wlieare  theie  maie  be  dispersed  to  be  safelie  kept 
from  escaping,  thowgh  your  selvis  knowinge  the  contrye  can 
best  consider  theareof,  yet,  to  deliver  somm  part  of  our 
opinions,  wee  thinke  somm  of  them,  that  is  the  greater 
nomber,  maie  be  committed  to  the  Castle  of  Yorke,  summ 
others  to  Hull,  summ  to  Sherif  Hutton,  and  summ  (if  yowe 
soe  thinke  fitt)  to  Pomfrett,  or  to  other  places  fitt  for  them  to 
be  kept  in  savetie,  and  yet  to  be  well  used ;  theie  bearinge 
theire  owne  charges,  for  so  wee  thinke  theie  owght  to  doe. 
And  the  same  to  be  borne  by  the  contributions  of  such  as 
be  fownd  the  offenders  uppon  the  borders,  for  whome  thes 
pledges  are  delivered  that  theie  showld  satisfie  the  Queue's 
subjectes  for  the  losses  sustained  by  them  according  to  the 
verdittes  and  indents  passed  uppon  the  frontiers  at  the  late 
sessions  of  the  Commissioners  of  England  and  Scotland.  And 
in  our  opinion,  for  the  bestowing  of  thes  men,  the  Commis- 
sioners showld  have  done  well  to  have  sent  unto  yowe  the 
names  and  quallities  of  thes  persons  sent  for  pledges,  with 
devision  of  such  as  are  for  the  severall  wardenries;  for  so  the 
choise  might  be  the  better  made  howe  to  bestowe  them  in 
places  convenient,  according  to  theire  quallities  and  to  the 
wardenries  from  whence  theie  comm.  And  soe,  because  the 
time  is  past  before  hir  Majestie's  further  pleisure  can  be  nowe 
knowen,  wee  of  the  Counsell  that  are  here  at  London  doe  give 
you  this  direction  for  the  more  speed.  From  Westminster, 
this  last  of  September,  1597. 

Your's  Grace's  verie  lovinge  frendes, 

Tho.  Egerton,  C.  S. 

W.  BuRGHLEY. 

Ro.  Cecyll. 

(Autograph  signatures.) 


120  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 


LETTER  LXII. 

THE  EARLE  OF  CUMBERLAND  TO  MY  LORD's  GRACE  OF 
YORKE. 

Febr.  16,  1597-8.  (543.) 

My  good  Lord,  If  the  extreme  toyle  of  infinyte  bnsines 
and  deepe  ingament  {1  engagement)  in  a  seae  preperation  ^°  had 
lefte  me  any  leasnre,  thus  longe  your  Grace  had  not  beene 
without  kinde  sahitations  frome  me,  though  noe  otherways  I 
could  expresse  my  love  ;  and  nowe  gooinge  upon  my  jurney  I 
recommende  to  your  Lordship  my  lovynge  thoughts,  which 
with  me  selfe  shall  ever  be  redy  to  dooe  you  all  fryndly 
offices,  as  to  one  whoes  love  I  much  account  of  and  will 
not  fayle  to  requite.  Soe,  wyshyng  to  your  Grase  best  healthe, 
all  happines,  and  long  lyfe  to  Godd's  pleasure,   I  ende. 

Your  Grace's  to  command, 

George  Cumbreland. 
16  Feb.  1597. 

To  the  Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  the  Lord 
Archbyshoppe  his  Grace  of  Yorcke. 


LETTER  LXIIL 

LORD    TREASURER    [bURGHLEY    TO    THE    ARCHBISHOP    OF    YORK,] 
TOUCHINGE    SIR    ROBERT    CARR,    LORD    OF    CESSFORD. 

21  Feb.  1597-8. 

Recep.  24,  at  7  at  night. 

After  my  vearie  hartie  commendacions  to  your  Grace.  The 
same  shall  understand  that  at  the  present  theare  is,  by  order  of 
the  King  of  Scottes,  the  person  of  Sir  Robert  Carre,  otherwise 

^  See  in  Whitaker's  Craven,  p.  273,  a  letter  from  the  Earl  of  Cumberland  to 
the  Lord  Treasurer,  referring  to  the  expedition  alluded  to  in  this  letter,  which 
it  seems  was  not  undertaken.  A  full  account  of  the  Earl  of  Cumberland  may 
be  found  in  the  book  above  referred  to. 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  121 

called  the  Lord  of  Sesford,  Warden  of  the  Est  Marches  of  Scot- 
land, delivered  to  the  Warden  of  the  Est  Marches^  of  England, 
for  aunswearhige  of  divers  attempts  and  wrongs  done  by  the 
part  of  Scotland ;  vvhoe  is  to  remaine  in  England  nntill  a  nomber 
of  pledges  maie  be  delivered  into  England  for  satisfaccion  of  the 
wronges  done  to  England  in  that  wardenrie.  This  man  is  of 
gi'eat  accompt  both  by  his  birthe  and  by  office,  and  one  liable 
to  be  either  a  good  or  a  bad  neighbour  to  England  :  for  which 
purpose  hir  Majestic  hath  thowght  it  necessarie  that  he  should  be 
browght  and  staid  in  som  remote  part  in  England  from  the 
Border ;  and  for  that  purpose  hir  Majestic  hath  recommended 
me  to  signifie  to  your  Grace  hir  pleisance  and  command  that  he 
should  be  browght  unto  you ;  and  that  he  should  be  committed 
to  the  charge  of  sum  trustie  persons,  to  see  him  forthcominge  at 
your  howse  of  Busshopsthrope,  or  sum  othir  place  owt  of  the 
citie  of  York,  so  as  he  showld  not  have  anie  accesse  of  strangers 
to  him.  And,  accordinge  to  this  hir  Majestie*'s  commandment,  I 
have  at  this  present  signified  hir  ISIajestie's  pleasance  to  Sir 
Robert  Careie,  Warden  of  the  Estmarche,  whoe  hath  him  in 
his  custodie  at  this  time,  and  will  send  him  to  your  Grace.  And 
so  I  take  my  leave.  From  the  Cort,  this  xxi  of  Februarye, 
1597. 

Your  Grace's  assured  lovinge  frende, 

W.  BURGHLEY. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  very  good  Lord, 
the  Archbishop  of  York. 

(Autograph  signature.) 


LETTER  LXIV. 

LORD    TREASORER    [bURGHLEY    TO    THE    ARCHBISHOP    OF    YORk], 
CONCERNING    THE    LORD    OF    SESFORDE. 

1  Mar.  1597-8. 

Recep.  6°  ejusdem. 

After  my    vearie  hartie   commendacions  to  your  Grace.     I 
have  received  your  letter,  dated  the  xxv*''  dale  of  the  last  moneth, 


122  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC 

signifieng  thereby  the  receipt  of  mine  of  the  xxj"',  whearebie  I 
gave  your  Grace  to  understand  of  hir  Majestie's  purpose  to  have 
the  Lord  of  Sesford  to  be  sent  unto  yowe,  to  be  safehe  kept  at 
Busshopsthorp,  or  some  other  place  without  the  citie.  And 
wheare  by  this  your  lettre  yowe  move  three  questions,  I  will  in 
one  word  awnswere  them  all,  which  is,  that  hir  Majestie's 
express  pleisure  and  commaundment  is  that  he  shall  not  be 
browght  at  all  to  Yorke,  or  kept  at  hir  Majestie's  howse  theare  ; 
but  that  he  showld  be  kept  at  Bishopsthrop,  and  theare  to  be 
kept  as  a  close  prisoner,  without  resort  to  him,  or  walking 
abroade,  otherwise  then  privately  neare  the  howse ;  and  theare- 
fore  I  doe  not  dowbt  but,  nowe  your  Grace  understandeth  hir 
Majestie's  pleisure  therein,  yowe  will  be  carefull  to  tak  order 
with  him  accordingly,  and  that  he  male  be  safelie  garded  and 
kept.  And  so  I  commend  mee  hartelie  to  your  Grace.  From 
Cort,  this  first  of  Marche,  1597. 

Your  Grace's  assured  loving  frend, 

W.  BuRGHLEY. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  veary  good  Lord, 
the  Archbishop's  Grace  of  Yorke. 

(Autograph  signature.) 


LETTER  LXV. 

ERLE    OF    ESSEX    CONCERNING    THE    LORD    OF    SESFORDE. 

18  March,  1597-8. 

My  verry  good  Lord,  Whereas  her  Majesty  doth  understand 
that  Sir  Robert  Carre,  the  Lard  of  Sesseforthe,  is  brought  to 
your  Lordship  to  Yorke  and  delyvered  over  to  you  ;  albeit 
her  Hyghnes  was  purposed  that  he  should  have  ben  placed 
with  the  Byshop  of  Durrham,  neverthelesse,  sy thence  he  is  now 
there,  her  Majesty*'s  pleasure  is,  he  shall  remayn  with  your 
Lordship,  and  to  be  kept  safely  as  a  prysonner  and  one  that  is 
delyvered  over  by  the  treatye,  and  not  as  a  person  sent  from  the 
King :  therfore  your  Lordship  is  to  make  choyse  of  some 
specyell,  dyscrete,  and  trustye  person  to  attend  cuntynewally  yr. 
upon  him,    and  to  gyve  dyrection  that  no  man  be  admitted  to 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  128 

have  conference  with  him,  or  accesse  unto  him,  but  in  the  pre- 
sence and  heringe  of  that  gentleman  your  Lordship  shall  appoint 
to  have  the  chardg  to  keepe  him  and  to  looke  unto  him.  And 
becawse  her  Majesty  may  be  informed  of  the  order  your  Lord- 
ship shall  take  herin,  I  am  to  request  youe  to  certyfye  unto  my 
Lord  Treasorer,  and  to  me,  the  name  of  him  youe  shall  make 
choyse  of  for  this  purpose,  and  in  what  sort  he  is  kept.  This 
direction  should  have  come  from  my  Lord  Treasorer  and  my  self 
jointly ;  but  in  regard  of  his  Lordship's  indisposytion,  beinge 
trobled  with  the  gowt  in  his  hand,  I  have  only  subscrybed  unto 
it,  prayinge  your  Lordship  to  retorn  your  awnswere  unto  us 
bothe.  So  I  commit  your  Lordship  to  God.  From  the  Court 
at  Whytehall,  the  18">  of  March,  1597. 

Your  Grace's  poore  frend  to  be  commanded  by  you, 

Essex. 

Her  ISIajesty  dyd  greatly  mislyke  that  your  Grace  dyd  make 
it  a  question  whether  the  prysonner  should  be  placed  at  the 
Cownsell  bord  or  no. 

To  my  verry  good  Lord  the  Lord  Archbishop  of  York. 

(The  whole  letter  in  the  hand-writing  of  the  Earl.     Armorial  seal  in  wax, 
nearly  perfect.) 


LETTER  LXVL 

SAUNDERS    FREEBARNE    TO    THE    LORD    OF    SESFORDE. 

27  April,  1598. 

My  very  good  Lord,  my  humble  dute  remembrid  to  your 
Lordship.  Yt  may  plese  you  understand  that  by  your  Lordship's 
grete  clemency  and  goodnes,  procuringe  my  Lord  Bishopp  his 
favorable  letter  to  M'.  Mayer  and  M'.  Gee  for  my  inlargement, 
who  uppon  receyte  therof  hath  taken  of  my  irons  and  removid 
me  into  the  Burgis  presonne,  where  I  remayne  in  a  most  dis- 
tressid  estate,  not  havinge  eyther  mony,  mete,  or  frindes  to 
releve  my  wantes,  but  the  indignation  and  envyus  mallice  of  the 
Shreve  and  his  officer,  whome  I  hurt,  beinge  gretly  urged  there- 
unto by  him,  after  he  had  arested  me,  by  strekinge  me  3  sundry 


124  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

tymes  before  I  did  streke  liim ;  who  nowe  seinge  by  your 
Lordship^s  gret  favor  my  Lord's  letter  hath  procurid  my  irons 
of,  he  hath  enterd  an  action  of  a  hunderd  pownds  sterling  against 
me  in  the  Shreve's  court,  where,  without  your  Lordship's  good 
favor,  I  wilbe  condemnid  in  the  same  for  an  action  of  battery ; 
which  beinge  so  recoverid  against  me,  I  must  remayne  here  in 
this  miserable  place  untill  I  satisfye  the  same,  where  I  shalbe 
suer  to  tast  of  all  extremytis,  wdiich  many  here,  straungers  in 
my  behalfe,  mones  and  can  not  mend  yt,  thinckinge  yt  a  grete 
wrong  I  should  be  detaynid  prysoner,  and  the  officer  sound  and 
Avell  and  goth  abrode.  The  remedy  as  by  some  wellwillers  I 
understand  is,  that,  yf  yt  plese  my  Lord  Bisshop,  he  may  graunt 
out  a  warrannt  to  remove  me  and  my  cause  to  Yorke,  there  to 
be  hard  before  his  Lordship  and  Oouncell ;  wdiich  beinge  pro- 
curid will  delyver  me  out  of  the  extremities  here,  and  so  my 
adversary  enforced  to  be  ruled  as  shall  be  thought  convenient 
unto  ther  Lordshipps  ;  which  favor,  in  regard  I  am  a  straunger, 
destetute  of  frinds,  and  wants  lyberte,  I  cannot  procure.  And 
therefore  my  humble  siite  is  that  yt  wold  plese  your  Lordship  to 
dele  with  my  Lord  Bisshop  for  the  obtayninge  of  such  proces 
as  may  remove  the  boddy  and  cause  to  Yorke,  a  thinge  which 
I  understand  is  uswll ;  which  favor  yf  so  yt  may  plese  your 
good  Lordship  to  procure  me,  I  and  all  my  frindes  shalbe  depely 
bound  to  pray  for  your  prosperus  estate,  and  to  do  you  servis 
duringe  life,  as  knoweth  God,  to  whose  mighte  protection  I  most 
humbly  committ  your  good  Lordshipp.  From  Hull,  this  xxvii 
of  Aprill,  1598. 

Your  Lordshipp's  most  humble  orator  dureinge  life, 

Saunders  Freebarne. 

To  the  Right  honorable  and  his  verie  good  Lord  Sir  Robert 
Carr,  at  my  Lord's  Gracis  house  of  Yorke,  these  deliver,  at 
Bisshopthai-p  nere  Yorke,  with  sjiede. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  121 


LETTER  LXVII. 

ALEX.   FREEBARNE    TO    THE    LORD    OF    SESFORDE. 

27  Ap.  1598. 

My  very  good  Lord,  Since  the  writings  of  this  letter  herein  closed, 
a  frind  in  this  towne  talked  with  the  officer  I  hurt,  perswadinge 
him  to  have  some  compassion  and  pyttye  on  me,  beinge  a  pore 
straunger  in  a  grete  want  and  far  from  frinds,  but  could  prevale 
nothinge  with  him  ;  who  answered  him,  he  wold  not  take  one 
penny  lesse  then  a  hunderd  powndes,  and,  yf  I  were  not  able 
to  paye  that,  he  wold  kepe  me  here  in  pryson  till  I  rotted, 
and  so  wold  have  my  bones  ;  sayinge  further,  that,  yf  my  Lorde's 
Grace  of  Yorke  wold  intrete  for  him,  he  wold  not  bate  a  penny 
of  yt  :  so,  as  I  have  no  hope  of  any  favor  here  at  his  handes,  as 
by  his  wordes  apperes,  which  he  spoke  to  a  very  honest  man  who 
will  prove  the  same  to  his  face,  which  frind  on  Munday  last 
before  M^  Shreve  demaundid  of  the  officer  what  he  requiered  for 
agrement,  and  he  said  he  wold  have  xx  markes  for  the  surgin 
and  tenn  powndes  for  his  owne  hurt,  and  nowe,  since  yt  hath 
plesid  my  Lorde's  Grace  to  wright  in  my  favor,  he  will  have  no 
lesse  then  a  hunderd  powndes  ;  wherfor,  good  my  Lord,  lett  me 
crave  your  Lordship's  favor  to  my  Lord's  Grace  that  yt  will 
plese  him  to  take  pytty  uppon  me  a  poore  sti-aunger  distressed  ; 
which  yf  so  yt  shall  plese  him  to  doe,  I  will  dureinge  life  re- 
may  ne  his  poore  headman,  and  cause  my  Lord  Hume,  my  mas- 
ter, to  desier  Sir  Wilham  Bowes  to  geve  him  harte  thancks  for 
what  favor  yt  shalle  plese  him  to  shewe  me.  My  frind  this 
day  acquainted  M^  j\Iayer  of  the  officer's  hard  spece,  who  utterly 
condemnid  him  for  the  same,  sayinge,  yf  yt  plesid  my  Lord's 
Grace,  he  may  call  him  before  him  and  the  Oouncell,  and  ther 
determyn  the  matter  as  ther  wisdomes  shall  thincke  goode  ;  for 
the  obtayninge  of  which  favor  I  most  humble  beseach  your  Lord- 
shipp  to  solicitt,  havinge  no  other  frind  or  menes  here  to  procuer 
my  relese,  humble  cravinge  pardon  for  this  my  bouldnes.  And  so, 
with  the  remembraunce  of  my  dute,  I  humble  take  my  leve, 
cravinge  your  Lordshipp's  aunswer  herein  ;  which  yf  yt  plese  you 
to  deliver  this  berer,   he    will   send   yt   me.     From   Hull,    this 


126  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

xxvii*''  of  Aprlll,  1598.     Your   Lordshippe's   to   command  till 
detli. 

Allexsaunder  Ferbarne. 

To  the  Right  honorable  and  his  very  good  Lord  Sir  Robert 
Carr,  at  my  Lord  his  Gracis  house  at  Bisshopton,  these 
be  dehvered  with  spede. 


LETTER  LXVIII. 

LORD    TREASORER    AND    LORD    OF    ESSEX    TO    THE    ARCHBISHOP 
OF    YORK,    CONCERNING    THE    LORD    OF    SESFORDE. 

29  April,  1598. 

After  our  vearie  heartie  commendacions  to  your  Grace.  Hir 
Majestic  havinge  been  pleased  to  ease  your  Lordship  of  the 
keaping  of  the  Lord  of  Sesford,  whoe  hath  sum  time  remained 
with  you  to  your  trovible,  hath,  by  hir  owne  lettre  at  this  time 
written  to  yow,  signified  in  what  sort  he  is  to  be  sett  at  libertie ; 
which  your  Lordship  shall  understand  hereafter  from  the  Lord 
Willowghbie,  to  whome  hir  Majestic  hath  likewise  by  hir  owne 
lettre  directed  hir  pleisure  to  him  in  this  behalf.  And  wheareas 
the  Scottishe  Ambassador,  nowe  heare,  at  his  comming  upp  was 
desirous  to  have  seen  him,  which  he  was  not  permitted  to  doe, 
your  Lordship  havinge  noe  warrant  for  the  same,  hir  Majestic 
is  nevertheles  pleased  that  nowe  in  his  returne  backwardes,  if  he 
shall  so  require  the  same,  he  maie  have  full  speeche  with  him, 
wheareof  wee  have  thought  good  to  give  your  Lordship  know- 
ledg.  And  so  wee  vearie  hartelie  commend  us  to  your  Grace. 
From  the  Cort,  this  xxix*''  of  Aprill,  1598. 

Your  Grace's  vearie  lovinge  frends, 

W.  Burghley.     Essex. 

To  our  vearie  good  Lord  the  Archbusshoppe  of  Yorkc. 

(Autograpii  signatures.     Seal  wanting.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  127 

LETTER  LXIX. 

SIR    WILLIAM     BOWES      [tO     THE     ARCHBISHOP     OF     YORK],    CON- 
cerning lord  of  sesforde,   etc. 

3  May,  1598. 

Recep.  8  Maii. 

It  may  please  your  Grace.  I  doubt  not  butt  your  Grace  hath 
been  advertised  of  her  Majestie's  pleasure  concerning  the  Larde 
of  Sesfurd,  that  he  shal  be  returned  home  upon  the  entrie  of 
his  brother  and  some  other  gents,  his  frinds,  in  Barwick,  as 
cautioners  for  his  performance  of  such  covenants  as  shalbe  in- 
dented with  him  on  her  Majestie's  behalfe  before  his  departure. 
The  Scottish  Ambassador  hath  had  audience  of  her  Majestic 
thrice,  and  once  conference  with  the  Lords  of  tlie  Counsell.  It 
seemeth  his  ambassage  hath  well  satisfied  her  JNIajestie  in  some 
jealousies  and  hard  opinions  she  had  by  misunderstanding-  con- 
ceyved  of  that  King  and  cuntrie.  He  hath  obtayned  a  warrant 
for  SOOO'^  of  the  gratutie  to  the  King  his  soveraigne  ;  which 
neverthelesse,  after  the  signing,  was  staied  some  14  dayes,  upon 
advertisement  out  of  Ireland  of  municion  and  poulder  trans- 
ported out  of  Scotland  thither  to  the  aide  of  her  Majestie's 
rebells  there,  and  intelligence  given  heere  by  one  Valentine 
Thomas  (now  prisoner  in  the  Tower)  of  some  dangerous  practises 
intended  by  the  Scottish  nation  against  this  estate ;  but  now  at 
last  he  hath  gotten  the  gratuitie  and  is  dispatched  hence,  who  in 
truth  hath  so  carried  him  selfe  in  this  his  negociation  as  he 
hath  gott  the  opinion  heere  of  a  wise  and  temperat  man,  and  well 
affected  to  the  peace  of  the  2  cuntries.  M^  Secretarie  is  re- 
turned out  of  Fraunce,  and  came  hither  the  last  of  Aprill  late 
in  the  night :  the  effects  of  his  ambassage  are  kept  verie  secrett, 
butt  it  is  thought  that  the  peace  betwixt  Spayn  and  Fraunce  is 
in  good  towardness  of  conclusion.  And  thus,  with  humble 
remembrance  of  my  dutie  and  service  to  your  Grace,  I  be- 
take you  to  the  protection  of  the  Highest.  London,  this  3  of 
May,  ''98.      Your  Grace''s  at  command,  William  Bowes. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  the  Lord  Archbishop 
his  Grace  of  York,  my  verie  good  Lord. 

(Signature  only  in  the  hand-writing  of  Sir  WilHani  Bowes.     Seal,  tlie  ftimily 
crest,  a  sheaf  of  arrows.     Motto  illegible.) 


128  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  LXX. 

LORD    WILLUGHBIE    [tO    THE   ARCHBISHOP    OF    YORk],    CONCERN- 
ING   LORD    OF    SESFORDE. 

4  May,  1598. 

Recep.  6. 

My  very  goode  Lord,  I  receaved  the  Queene's  Majestie's 
packett  and  your  Grace"'s  letter  this  fourth  of  May  aLout 
six  in  the  morning,  and  by  her  Highnes'  letters  had  the  very 
like  directions  as  it  seemed  by  your  Grace's  to  me  you  had  con- 
cerning the  delivery  of  Sir  Robert  Kerr  Lord  Sesforde,  and 
upon  the  same  conditions.  But,  before  the  coming  of  these 
letters,  there  was  nother  man  nor  mention  of  any  thing  touch- 
ing the  same,  more  then  a  secretary  of  his  came  to  me  to  have 
pasport  to  ryde  to  your  Grace  and  informe  his  master  that 
his  pledges  were  ready ;  which  when  I  had  graunted  him,  he 
left  the  same  behynde  him,  and  so  departed.  It  seemeth  that 
her  Majestie's  plesure  is,  before  Sesford  should  be  inlarged, 
there  should  be  putt  into  my  handes  the  brother  of  the  said  Ses- 
ford, with  two  persons  of  kynn  to  him,  to  remayne  prisoners  in 
some  suche  place  as  shalbe  appoynted  thereunto,  untill  these 
pledges  that  ar  to  be  given  in  by  the  indent  of  the  late 
Commissioners  on  both  sydes  for  the  border  causes  shalbe 
accordingly  entered  ;  and  with  this  caution  also  before  he  be 
dismissed  from  your  Lordship,  that  he  gyve  in  writing  under 
his  hand  and  seale,  that  if,  after  his  brother  and  kinsfolkes 
shalbe  delivered  into  my  handes,  he  doe  not  within  one  moneth 
next  after  following  recover  and  deliver  in  those  pledges  which 
by  the  said  Commissioners''  indent  ought  on  his  part  to  be 
entered,  he  shall  then  return  to  Barwick  and  yeald  him- 
self prisoner  into  my  handes,  to  be  kept  in  such  places  of 
these  north  partes  as  to  her  Majestie  shalbe  thought  fitt,  untill 
he  shall  have  performed  on  his  part  that  which  by  the  sayd 
indent  was  agreed  should  be  done.  Wherfore  it  may  please 
your  Grace  to  deale  effectually  with  Sir  R.  Kerr  Lord  Sesford, 
to  take  order  to  proceade  herin  according  to  her  Majesty e's 
pleasure ;    and,    assone     as    ever    his     brother    and     kinsfolkes 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  129 

apoynted  shalbe  delivered  into  my  liandes,  I  shall  send  your 
Grace  jiresent  word,  and  thinck  it  very  convenient  that  then 
you  send  him  to  Duresme  by  such  gentlemen  of  your  choyse 
of  that  country  (myself  being  altogether  unacquaynted  in  those 
partes)  as  you  shall  thinke  meete,  acording  to  your  Grace's 
owne  project  in  your  postscript.  And  I  would  willingly  entreat 
you  to  give  me  your  opinion  what  manner  of  persons  were  fitt 
to  be  sent  from  me  for  his  receaving  there,  whether  martiall 
men  for  a  guard,  or  civlll  politique  men  for  entring  into  his 
counsell ;  whether  many,  or  fewe  ;  with  great  countenance,  or 
with  ordinary  complement ;  for  in  these  things  I  would  be 
glad  nether  to  doe  too  much  nor  too  little,  but,  as  I  have 
direction  by  mutuall  correspondency  with  your  Lordship,  that 
which  might  be  most  acceptable  service.  And  so  I  humbly 
take  my  leave.     From  Barwick,  the  4"\of  May,  ]59S. 

Your  Grace's  assured, 
*  P.  Wyllughby. 

To  the  Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  the  Lord 
Arclibishop  of  Yorke  his  Grace. 

(Lord  Willoughby's  signature.     No  seaL) 


LETTER  LXXI. 

LORD  WTLLUGHBIE  [tO  THE  ARCHBISHOP  OF  YORk],  CONCERN- 
ING THE  ENTRIE  OF  SIR  ROBERT  KERR's  BROTHER  AND 
TWO     OTHER    PLEDGES. 

8  May,  1598. 

Recep.  11,  at  8  at  night. 

My  honorable  good  Lord,  I  receaved  your  Grace's  letter 
this  day  at  noone,  in  conveyance  whereof  the  postes  have 
used  great  negligence,  it  coming  to  Duresme  at  eight  in  the 
morning,  and  to  Newcastle  not  till  foure  in  the  evening:  to 
punish  this  slacknes  (least  it  be  committed  in  more  important 
services),  I  must  desyre  your  Lordship  to  concurr  with  me. 
I  am  of  your  Grace's  opinion  that  Sir  Robert  Kerr  will  not 
make   any  escape,   yet  much  water    passeth    the  mill   that  the 


130  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

miller  knoweth  not,  and  there  may  be  secretes  hevin  unknown 
to  your  Lordship  and  me  ;  so  that,  till  his  pledges  be  delivered, 
it  wilbe  good  to  have  a  heedefull  eye  to  him.  And  wishing 
your  Lordship  much  hapines,  I  rest 

Your  Grace's  assured, 

P.  Wyllughby. 
Barwick,  the  viij"'  of  May,  1598. 

Since  my  letter  written,  Sir  R.  Kerr's  pledges  arrived  here 
at  foure  afternoone.  I  must  desyre  your  Grace  to  advertise 
me  two  dayes  before  he  comes  to  Duresme,  that  I  may  take 
order  with  those  who  I  shall  apoynt  to  meete  him. 

To  the  Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  the  Lord 
Archbisho2:)'s  Grace  of  Yorke. 

(The  signature  in  Lord  Willoughby's  hand.     Armorial  seal  in  M-ax  of  nume- 
rous quarterings.) 


LETTER  LXXn. 

LORD    WILLUGHBY    TO    THE    LORD    OF    SESFORDE. 

8  May,  1598. 

Recep.  11°,  at  8  at  night. 

Sir,  I  would  have  bene  glad  to  have  scene  you  in  your  retorn 
in  this  towne ;  but,  her  Majestye  havinge  other wyse  appoynted 
your  jurney,  I  wyll,  yf  I  cann,  mete  you  at  M^  Graye's,  and 
purpose  to  send  some  gentleman  to  convoy  you  from  Durham 
thether.  I  am  sory  I  shall  not  intertaigne  your  brother  and 
hostages,  beinge  unfurnished  as  a  stranger  yet  my  selfe,  but 
what  I  may  shalbe  afforded  them  ;  hopinge  you  wyll  hasten  to 
deliver  the  pledges  accordinge  to  the  indent  for  ther  releivinge. 
Thus,  wishinge  you  well  in  any  thinge  becomes  me,  I  rest 
accordingly. 

Your  lovinge  freind  to  my  uttermoste, 

P.  Wyllughby. 

Barwick,  tliis  8"'  of  May. 

To  the  Honorable  Knight,  Sir  Robert  Carre,  Lord 
Warden  of  the  Easte  Marshes  of  Scottlande. 

(Lord  Willoughby's  signature.     Armorial  seal  broken.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  131 


LETTER  LXXIII. 

LORD  WILUGHBIE    [tO  THE  ARCHBISHOP  OF    YORk],    CONCERNING 
THE     LORD    OF    SESFORDE. 

13  May,  1598. 

I  AM  sure,  howsoever  I  measurd  by  the  cold  clime  Aprill  for 
a  late  May,  or  missed  to  sigue  my  name,  I  omitted  it  not  for 
want  of  grace,  hut  for  hast ;  which  shall  be  at  layzure  mended. 
The  hand  as  I  take  it  was,  as  this,  my  owne,  and  therefore  my 
owne,  and  not  my  secretarie's  fault ;  and  I  confesse  I  love  to 
write  no  dobles  of  letters,  but  will  affirm  my  hand  and  it  whan- 
soever  your  Grace  shall  node  to  call  uppon  it.  In  the  meane 
season,  as  the  French  pronouncing  Latin  shorten  it  mutch, 
and  with  their  quickness  excuse  the  cadence  of  sillables,  so 
excusing  my  selfe,  and  leaving  it  to  your  gratious  construction, 
I  rest  in  better  things  at  your  Grace's  commawnd, 

P.  WyLLUCtHBY. 
Barwick,  the  13  of  ]\Iay. 

The  poste-masters  have  in  this  pacquet  of  your  Grace's 
slacked  their  duty  mutch ;  I  complayne,  but  I  shall  be  better  hard 
when  the  witnes  is  ex  ore  duorum.  If  your  Grace  send  me 
the  letter  as  it  is,  I  will  set  to  my  hand  :  I  can  hardly  beleave 
but  that  I  signed  the  letter;  but,  if  it  be  not  signed,  at  any 
time  I  will  subscribe  it  for  you.  My  people  shall  attend  at 
Durham  according  to  your  Grace's  appoint. 

To  the  Right  Reverend  Father  in  God,  the  Lord 
Archhishop's  Grace  of  Yorke. 

(In  Lord  Wylhighby's  own  hand.) 


K  2 


132  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

No.  LXXIV. 

A    BILL    OF    LORD    SESFORDE. 
May,  1598.      (Copy.) 

Be  it  knowne  to  all  men  by  tlies  presents,  that  I,  Sir  Robert 
Kerr,  Knight,  Lord  of  Sesforcl,  Warden  of  tlie  East  and  Meddle 
Marches  of  Scotland  anenst  England,  doe  fermlie  bind  and 
oblige  myselfe  upon  my  faith  and  honor  to  the  Quene's  most 
excellent  Majestic,  Elisabeth,  by  the  grace  of  God,  Quene  off 
England,  France,  and  Irelande,  Defender  off  the  faith,  &c. 
that  in  case  and  yf  within  one  month  next  after  the  delevere 
of  my  'brother  and  ij  other  oif  my  kinsfolke  into  the  hand  of 
Lord  Willowbie  Governor  of  Barwicke,  I  doe  not  enter  and 
deliver  unto  the  said  Lorde  Willowbie  in  Barwick  aforesaid 
all  those  pledges  which  are  to  be  geven  in  of  my  part  speci- 
fied in  the  late  indent  oif  the  Commissioners  off  bothe  the 
realmes  of  England  and  Scotland,  then  I  will  forthwith  yeld 
myselfe  prisoner  in  the  same  towne  of  Barwicke  to  the  said 
Lord  Governour  according  to  her  Majestie''s  direction.  Li 
witness  wheroif,  I  the  said  Sir  Robert  Ker  have  hereunto 
subscribed  my  name  and  putto  my  seale,  the  day  off  Maie 
Anno  Domini  1598,  and  in  the  40"'  yeare  off  hir  Majestie's 
happie  raigne.  Subscribed,  sealed,  and  delivered  by  the  said 
Sir  Robert  Kerr  unto  the  handes  off  Matthew  Archbishop  off 
Yorke,  to  the  use  off  hir  IVIajestie,  in  the  presence  off  us. 

(The  above  draft  of  the  Bond  is  chiefly  in  the  hand  of  the  Archbishop  of  York.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  133 


LETTER  LXXV. 

LORD  TREASORER  [bURGHLEY  TO  THE  ARCHBISHOP  OF  YORk], 
CONCERNING  SENDING  OF  SIR  ROBERT  KER's  BONDE  TO 
THE    LORD    WILLUGHBIE. 

23  May,  1598. 

Recep.  25,  at  2  after  dinner. 

After  my  vearie  liartie  commendaclons  to  your  Grace. 
Wheare  by  your  letter  dated  the  xV"  dale  of  this  moneth, 
derected  to  myself  and  my  Lord  Marshall,  yowe  require  to 
understand  what  yowe  shall  doe  with  the  bond  which  yowe  have 
taken  of  the  Lord  of  Sessford,  (whereof  yowe  sent  hither  a  copie,) 
as  either  to  send  it  hither,  or  to  the  Lord  WiUowghbie;  your 
Grace  shall  understaund  that  it  is  ment  that  your  Grace  should 
send  it  to  the  Lord  WiUowghbie,  so  as  it  male  be  delivered  back 
uppon  the  performance  of  the  condicion  thereof;  and  thearefore 
I  praie  your  Grace  forthwith  to  send  it  to  his  Lordship.  And  so 
I  recommend  mee  heartelie  to  your  Grace.     From  the  Cort,  this 

xxiii  of  Maye,  1598. 

Your  Grace's  assured  loving  frend, 

W.   BuRGHLEY. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  very  good  Lord, 

the  Archbishop's  Grace  of  Yorke. 
(Signatm'e  in  Lord  Burghlcy's  hand.     Seal,  the  crest  and  supporters  of  his 
family,  with  the  motto  of  the  Garter.) 


LETTER  LXXVL 

A     COPY     OF     A    LETTER     FROM     THE     KING's     MAJESTIE     TO    THE 
ARCHBISHOP    OF    YORK. 

9  June,  1598. 

Right  trustie  and  welbelovit,  we  greit  yow  hartely  well. 
Having  understand  by  the  reporte  of  S^  Robert  Ker,  Warden 
owir  our  Middle  March,  of  the  great  courtessie  uttered  to  him 


134  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

on  your  parte,  quilk  we  accepting  as  ane  singulare  bcnefite  pro- 
ceading  from  your  gucle  affection  towards  us  (quherofF  at  all  times 
w^e  have  had  assured  pruif)  could  not  of  our  debitie  hot  yeild 
you  mast  hartlie  tliankes,  assuring  yow  of  the  like  correspon- 
dence of  friendschip  on  our  behalf,  quhen  the  like  occasion  salbe 
presentit  to  ws  in  the  person  of  anye  quhom  it  sail  please  yow 
favor  with  your  recommendation  to  ws,  quilk  not  onely  salbe 
maiste  acceptable  unto  ws,  bot  will  earnestly  crave  that  ye  sould 
pretermitt  na  occasion  quhairby  ye  may  be  fullie  persuadit  of 
our  carefiilnes  till  acquite  this  late  gude  office  done  to  the  said 
S^  Robert  amang  many  otheris,  quhairin  we  confesse  our  selfe 
to  reste  your  debtor.  Tims,  praying  you  to  continue  in  your 
wonted  favor  towardis  us,  quilk  we  salbe  ever  reddy  to  acquite, 
we  commit  you  in  the  holie  protection  of  the  Almightie.  From 
Halyruidhouse,  this  ix"'  of  June,  1598. 

Your  loving  freiud, 

James   R. 

To  our  right  trustie  and  wclbclovit  the  Archbishop  of  York 
in  England. 

(Copia  vera.     Ex.  per  J.  Hall,  Secretarium.) 


LETTER  LXXVII. 

THE  LORDES  OF  HER  MAJESTIE's  MOST  HONORABLE  PRIVY 
COUNSELL  [to  THE  ARCHBISHOP  OF  YORk],  CONCERNING 
HOSTAGES    TO    BE    BROUGHT    FROM    BARWICK    TO    YORKE. 

11  June, 1698. 

Rccep.  14,  at  10  at  night. 

After  oure  liartie  commendacions  to  your  Lordship.  By  a 
letter  from  oure  very  good  Lord,  the  Lord  Willowghbie,  Governor 
of  Barwicke,  wee  understand  that  he  hath  receaved  the  pledges 
of  the  Midle  Marches  of  Scotland  from  the  handes  of  Sir 
Robert  Ker  ;  and  wee  have  hereupon  given  direction  for  their 
remoove  from  Barwicke  to  Yorke,  beinge  a  place  fitter  for  their 
safe  cnstodie.  And  because  they  are  to  make  their  i)assage 
thorough  the  East  Marches  and  the  Midle  Marches,  and  so  for- 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  135 

ward  thorough  the  bishopricke  of  Duresme,  unto  Yorke  ;  as  wee 
have  given  order  to  the  Lord  Willoughbie  for  the  conveying  of 
them  with  sufficient  guarde  to  the  hmittes  of  his  marches, 
and  accordingly  to  Sir  llobert  Cary  or  his  deputy  for  the 
Midle  Marches,  and  to  our  very  good  Lord  the  Byshopp  of 
Duresme  for  the  receaving  and  transferring  of  them  from  place 
to  place  ;  so  wee  do  praie  and  require  your  Lordship,  when  the 
Lord  Bishopp  of  Duresme  shall  send  the  said  pledges  unto 
Yorke,  (whereof  he  will  give  your  Lordship  notice  as  soone  as  he 
shall  see  cause  and  opportunity.)  you  will  take  order  for  the 
disposinge  of  them  in  safe  custody  in  the  castle  of  Yorke,  the 
persons  being  (as  wee  are  enformed)  men  of  very  meane  reckon- 
ing ;  and  to  give  comandement  that  there  be  no  resorte  to 
them  of  any  other  persons  then  such  as  shall  be  well  knowen  to 
be  of  honest  behavioure,  and  voide  of  any  suspicion  of  evill  prac- 
tise. Whereof  not  doubting  but  your  Lordship  will  take  suffi- 
cient care,  and  praying  yow  to  certefy  us  of  their  being  at  Yorke 
(when  they  shall  be  come  thither),  wee  bidd  your  Lordship  hartely 
well  to  fare.  From  the  Courte  at  Greenwich,  xi.  of  June,  1598. 
Your  Lordship's  very  loving  frends, 

Tho.  Egertone,  C.  S.     W.  Burgiiley.      Essex. 

g.  hunsdon, 

W.  Knollys.  Ro.  Cecyll. 

To  oure  very  good  Lord,  the  Lord  Archbyshoppe 

of  Yorke. 

(Signatures  autograph.) 


LETTER  LXXVin. 

SIR    ROBERT    KER    TO     MY    LORD's    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

14  June,  1598. 

May  it  pleis  zour  Grace.  I  determinit,  qulien  I  sinderit  frome 
zow,  before  now  to  have  returnit  sum  signe  of  myndfulnes  in 
me  to  be  thankfull  for  the  ressonabill  curtessies  and  undeservit 
favouris  that  I  resavit  of  zour  Grace  at  my  being  in  zour  hous 
of  Bischopthorpe  ;  bot  to  this  tyme  na  occasion  hes  intervenit, 
and  I  feir   my  wischit    pruif  have    to  lang  a  continewance  in 


186  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

urging  my  tryell.  Zet  my  recklincs  and  willing  bentness  I  crave 
be  noclit  the  les  weill  tliocht  of,  and  interpreit  to  the  best ;  sen 
thair  restis  no  wyte  in  myselfe,  hot  in  the  want  of  sum  particular 
to  preis  the  knawledge,  or  serve  to  be  as  tuichestone  of  my 
thanhfulnes,  quilk  will  [be]  maist  aggreabll  to  my  awin  desyris. 
And  sen  I  see  that  nether  it  hes,  nor  schortlie  is  lykelie  to  occur, 
I  have  chosin  this  as  ex^Dedient,  remembring  my  dewtie  by  thir 
lynis,  sen  occasion  is  ofFerit  be  ane  convenient  bearar ;  assuring 
zour  Grace,  gif  I  had  fund  the  Hke  commoditie  befoir,  I  had  not 
bene  sa  lang  ungeving  sum  schew  of  my  myndfulnes.  Bot  dis- 
tans  of  jjlace  breids  the  greitar  difficultie  in  obtcining  con- 
venient beararis  :  sa  my  excuse,  I  trust,  the  more  eselie  may  be 
qualefeit  in  zour  Grace's  conceat ;  sen  necessitie,  and  not  neg- 
h'gens,  hes  uurischit  the  caus  of  delaye.  I  have,  knawing  my 
awn  unhabilitie  weill,  unabill  to  acquit  my  dewtie,  procurit  his 
Majestic  my  maister's  letter  of  thankes  to  zour  Grace,  quilk 
it  will  pleis  zow  resave;  quilk  I  dar  be  bauld  to  saye  careis 
moir  effect  in  mening  then  the  force  of  the  words  can  gif  schew. 
Bot  I  think  zour  Grace's  considerans  sufficient  boith  for  the 
aryght  constructionn  of  that  letter  writtin  frome  his  Highnes,  and 
to  interpreit  myself  and  my  awn  mening  as  it  deservis.  Sua  I 
will  not  farder  be  trubilsum  be  lang  discours  ;  intreiting  that  my 
humbill  dewtie  may  be  rememberit  to  Maistres  Hutonn  zour 
wyf,  and  to  sick  utheris  of  zour  number  as  ze  pleis  impairt  it 
unto.  For  the  present,  taking  my  leive,  I  commit  zour  Grace  to 
the  protectionn  of  God  Almichtie.  From  my  hous  at  the  Freiris, 
the  xiiij  of  this  instant  Junij,  1598. 

Your  Grace's,  in  all  leiful  soirt  to  be  commandit, 

S'^  Robert  Ker. 


LETTER  LXXIX. 

MY     LORD     OF      DURESME     [dR.  MATTHEw],    CONCERNING     SCOT- 
ISH    PLEDGES    TO    BE    RECEIVED    AT    CROFT    BRIG. 

17  June,  1598. 

May  it  please  your  Grace  and  the  rest.  Finding  by  letters 
from  tlie  Lords  and  others  of  her  Majestie's  most  honorable 
Prevy  Counsell  that  the  pledges  lately  dehvered  by  Sir  Robert 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  137 

Kerr  to  the  Lord  Governor  of  Barwick  are  tlience  to  be  con- 
veyed and  guarded  to  York  ;  and  by  a  letter  from  M^  William 
Fen  wick,  the  Deputie  Warden  of  the  Middle  Marshes,  that  he 
is  to  recceave  them  ujion  Mondaie  next  about  noone  at  Alne- 
wick  ;  at  whose  hand  the  Sherif  of  this  countie  is  to  receave  them 
at  Gatesheade  on  Tuesdaie  next  about  the  same  houre,  and 
purposeth  to  deliver  them  to  the  Sherif  of  Yorkshire  at  Croft- 
bridge  upon  Wednesdaie  next  by  one  of  the  clock  in  the  after- 
noone,  being  the  usuall  place  betwene  that  countie  and  this  to 
deliver  and  receave  all  maner  of  prisoners  h'mc  hide :  These  may 
be  to  certifie  your  Grace  of  the  premisses,  to  the  end  that  the 
said  tyme  and  place  may  forthwith  be  signified  to  the  Sherif  of 
Yorkshire,  whereby  he  may  addresse  himself  for  the  more  cer- 
tayne  execution,  with  expedition,  of  this  her  Majestie''s  extraor- 
dinary service  of  great  importaunce ;  wherewith  I  perceave 
your  Grace  and  your  associats  have  been  made  acquain!e><l 
already  from  above.  And  so  I  humbly  betake  your  Grace  and 
the  rest  of  that  honorable  Counsell  to  the  tuition  of  the  Al- 
mightie.     At  B.  Awkland,  this  xvij'^  of  June,  1598. 

Your  Grace's  humblie  at  commaundment, 

ToBlE    DuRESM. 

To  tlie  most  Reverende  ffather  in  God,  and  nay  very  good 
Lord,  the  Arcliebusyhop's  Grace  of  York,  and  the 
rest  of  her  Majestie's  Counsell  established  there. 

(Tlic  signature  in  the  Bishop's  hand.      Seal,  the  arms  of  the  see  of  Durham  im- 
paling the  quarterly  coat  of  Matthew,  with  the  date  1595.) 


No.  LXXX. 

Mil.  redhead's     bill    upon    receipt    of    13    SCOTISII 
PLEDGES. 

22  June,  1598. 

Be  it  knowne  to  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  the  xxij"'  day 
of  June,  Anno  Domini  1598,  et  Anno  Regni  Dominse  nostra? 
Elizabethse  Reginae,  etc.,  quadragesimo,  I  Robert  Redhead,  Es- 
quire, Keeper  of  hir  Majestie's  castle  of  Yorke,  have  received  at 
the  handes  of  the  moste  Reverend  Father  Matthew  Lord  Arch- 


138  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

bishop  of  York*'s  Grace  the  bodies  of  thirtene  Scottishmen  here- 
under named,   that  is  to  say,   Eobert    Frisell   L,   of   Overton, 
James  Yono-  of  the  Coe,  Thomas  Ainsley  of  Oletehagh,  Rich- 
ard   Rutherford    of    Litlehagh,    William    Tate     of    Chiritrees, 
Dand  Davison  of  Brunfeld,  Raphe  Mooe  of  Mooehaugh,  John 
Robson   of   Chosen    Hope,  Raphe   Hall   of  the   Sykes,   Raphe 
Borne   of  Clifton    Cote,    Dand    Pringle    of   Hownam,   Richard 
Young  of  Feltersheles,  and  William   Hall  of   Heviside,   lately 
geven  in  and  delivered  to   the  Lord  Willoughby,   Governor  of 
Barwick,  by  Sir  Robert  Kerr,    Lord  of  Sesford,  as  pledges  or 
hostages,  by  vertue  of  the  late   indent   of  the   Commissioners 
appointed   for   bothe    the    realmes    of   England    and    Scotland. 
Which  said  thirtene  men  I  the  said  Robert  Redhead  doe  un- 
dertake safely  to  keepe  within   the   said  castle  of  York,   not 
suffering  any  resorte  or  accesse  unto  any  of  them  of  any  other 
person  or  persons  other  then  such  as  be  well  knowne  to  be  of 
good  and  honest  behaviour  and  void  of  anie  suspition  of  evill  prac- 
tise, as  I  am  required  and  commaunded  by  the  said  Lord  Arch- 
bishop by  direction  from  the  Lords  and  others  of  hir  Majjestie's 
most  honorable  Privie  Counsell.     Li  witnes  whereof  I  the  said 
Robert  Redhead  have  hereunto  put  my  hand  and  scale  the  said 
xxij"^  daie  of  June,  Anno  Domini  15.98. 

Robert  Redheadd. 

Sealed,  subscribed,  and  delivered  in  the  presence  of  us, 
Thomas  Lascelles.    Ch.  Hales.    John  Redwayne.    Ro.  Hall. 

(Seal,  a  Bird,  R.  R.) 


No.   LXXXL 


13    SCOTISH    PLEDGES     SENT    FROM    THE    LORD    WILLDGHBIE 
AND    COMMITTED    TO    THE    CASTLE    OF    YORK. 

22  JuNii,  1598. 

At  Yorke,  the  xxij^  day  of  June,  in  the  ffortithe  yeare  of  the 
reigne  of  our  moste  gratious  Soveraign  Lady  Elizabethe,  bye  the 
grace  of  God,  of  England,  France,  and  L-eland  Queue,  De- 
fender of  the  foithe,  &c.,  1598. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  139 

This  indenture  witnessitlie  that  I  Robert  Robson,  .(rentleman, 
Under  Sherif  of  the  county  pallatine  of  Durham,  and  Deputye  to 
the  Right  Reverend  ffather  in  God,  Tobie  Lord  Bushop  of  Dur- 
esme,  have  dehvered  to  the  handes  of  the  moste  Reverend  ffatlier 
in^  God,  Mathewe  Lord  Archbushop  of  Yorke  his  Grace,  tlie 
said  day,  yeare,  and  pLace,  the  bodies  of  all  and  singular  the 
persons  underwritten. 

1.  Robert  Frisell,   Lard  of  Overton. 

2.  James  Yong  of  the  Coe. 

3.  Thomas   Ainsly  of  Cletehaushe. 

4.  Richard  Rotherforth  of  Little  hughe. 

5.  William  Tate  of  Cheretrees. 

6.  Dand  Davison  of  Brumfeld. 

7.  Rauf  Mooe  of  Mooehaughe. 

8.  John  Robson  of  Chosenhope.    . 

9.  Rauf  Hall  of  the  Sykes. 

10.  Raup  Borne  of  Clyfton  Cote. 

11.  David  Pringle  of  Howenam. 

12.  Richard  Yonge  of  Feltersheles. 

13.  William  Hall  of  Hevisaide. 

All  Avhich  xiij  several!  persons  being  Scottes  pledges  was  re- 
ceved  by  me  the  said  Robert  Robson  at  the  Blewe  Stone  upon 
Tine  brigg,  by  indenture,  at  the  handes  of  William  Fenwick, 
Esq.,  Deputy  Warden  of  the  Middle  ]\Iarches,  upon  Tuesday 
last,  being  the  xx"'  day  of  this  instant  June,  to  be  delivered 
over  here  at  York,  according  to  the  direction  of  the  right  honor- 
able the  Lords  and  others  of  hir  Majestie's  moste  honorable 
Privie  Oounsell.  Li  witnes  whereof,  to  the  one  parte  of  these 
indentures,  remaining  with  the  said  Lord  Archbushop  his  Grace 
of  York,  I  the  said  Robert  Robson  have  here  unto  putt  my 
hand  and  seale  the  day  and  yeare  first  above  written. 

RoBT.  Robson. 
(Seal,  an  Eagle,  R.  R.) 

The  names  Will.  Elhvood  of  Clintwood,  Sirao  Armstrong  L.  of  Whitaugh, 
Will.  Elhvood,  the  younger,  of  Dinley  Buyer,  are  written  upon  the  back  of  the 
Bond. 


140  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

LETTER   LXXXII. 

HIR  MAJESTIe's  letters  TO  THE  ARCHBISHOP  OF  YORK  AND 
OTHERS,  CONCERNING  A  COLLECTION  OF  180''  FOR  FUR- 
NISHING   OF    G    LIGHTHORSMEN    FOR    IRELAND. 

18  JuLii,  1598. 

Recept.  24  Julii. 
Elizabeth  R.  By  the  Queene. 

MosTE  reverend  fFatlier  in  God,  right  trusty  and  right  entirely 
beloved,  and  right  trusty  and  welbeloved,  wee  greete  you  well. 
Whereas   wee  have  thought  yt  fitte  withall  expedition  to  send 
some  greater  fforces  of  men  out  of  this  our  realme  to  supjjresse 
the    rebellion    in    our    realme    of   Ireland,    and    therefore    have 
caused  certaine  companies  of  fFootemen  to  be  levied  in  severall 
shires  of  this  realme  ;    and  yet   do  think  yt  expedient,  for  the 
better  supply  of  that  service,  to  have  also  certaine  horses,  with 
their   furniture   and  armour  meete  for  lightliorsemen,   provided 
out  of  some  other  shires  of  our  realme  which  have  not  at  this 
tyme  been  charged  Avith  the  levy  of  any  iFootemen,   or  rather  so 
much  money  in  steed  of  the  sayed  horses  and  fFurniture  to  be 
collected  in  the  sayed  shires  as  may  suffice  to  buy  the  sayed 
horses,  armour,  and  furniture.      Wherefore  wee  will  and  requyre 
you,  and  by  these  our  letters  doe  authorize  you,  to  cause  the 
nomber  of  six  horses,    with  their  furniture  and  armour  for  as 
many  lightliorsemen,  to  be  levied,  or  rather  so  much  money  as 
shall  suffice  to  buy  the  same,  to  be  collected  in  our  county  of 
i^orke,  as  you  shalbe  directed  by  letters  from  our  Privy  Oounsell 
or  from  any  six  of  them,  which  wee  requyre  yow  in  all  thinges 
to  observe  for  the  better  furtheraunce  of  this  service.    And  these 
our  letters  shalbe  your  sufficient  warrant  and  discharge  in  this 
behaulf.     Given  under  our  signet,  at  our  mannor  of  Grenewich, 
the  xviij^''  daye  of  July,  in  the  fforteth  yere  of  our  raigne. 

J.  Wood. 
To  the  moste  Reverend  Father  in  God,  our  right  trusty  and  riglit 
entirely  beloved,  the  Archhyshop  of  Yorke,  President  of  our 
Counsell  in  the  North  partes.  And  to  our  trusty  and  well- 
beloved  the  High  Shcrif  of  om- county  of  Yorke,  Sir  AVilliam 
Mallory,  Sir  Christopher  Hillyard,  Sir  Thomas  Fairefax,  Sir 
William  Bellasis,  Sir  John  Dawney,  Knights,  Justices  of  the 
peace  in  our  county  of  Yorke,  or  to  any  ffowre  or  three  of  them. 
(Signet  in  wafer.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  141 


LETTER  LXXXIII. 

MR.   HEN.   LEIGHE    [tO    THE   LORD    ARCHBISHOP    OF    YORk],    CON- 
CERNING    SCOTISH    HOSTAGES. 

9  Aug.  1598. 

Recep.  12  ejusdem. 

May  it   please  your  Grace  to   geve  me   leave    to   advertjse 
yowe  that  I  have  reeeved  direction  from  my  very  good  Lord 
the   Lord   Scroope,  Lord   Warden  of  these  West   JSLirches,  by 
her  Majestle's  especiall    comandment,  to    delyver   over   all   the 
Scotts   j^ledges  which   in    his    Lordship's   absence  I  reeeved  of 
the  Layrd  of  Baclughe,  Lord  of  Liddesdayle,  to  be   conveyed 
from  sheriffe  to  sheriffe  unto  your  Grace  at  Yorke,  ther  to  be 
kept   with    the    rest   of  the   pledges   of  that    nation    untill    her 
Majestie's    further    pleasure    be    knowne.       Whereof    I    have 
thought  it  my  dewtye  to  geve  your  Grace  tymely  knowledge, 
most    humbly  prayinge    that   the    Sheriffe    of  Yorkshyre  may 
have  intelligence  thereof,  and  by  your  Grace  be  comanded  to 
attend    the    receyt   of  the    sayd   pledges   at    suche    day,  tyme, 
and   place  as   he   shall  by  the  next  officer  to  that  countye  be 
thereunto  requyred,  that  her   Majestie's  service  in  that  behalf 
be  not  neclected.     And  for  the  dischardge  of  my  owne  dewtye 
therin,   I  purpose,  God  wyllinge,  to   delyver  the  sayde  pledges 
unto    the    Sheriffe  of  this  countye  of  Cumberland  to  morowe, 
beinge    the    10    of    this   instant,    from    whens    they    wyll    with 
convenient  jornays  progresse.     So,   wyshinge  unto  your  Grace 
all    honor    and    heavenly   felicitye,    I    most    humbly   take   my 
leave,  in  some  hast,  by  reason  of  a  messenger  which  awayteth 
for  answer  of  letters  to  the  Erie  of  Anguse,  the  newe  Scottishe 
lyuetenant,    whose    cowld    begininge    in  justice    promisseth    no 
better    end   then   his    predicessor ;    in    respect   whereof  it   were 
convenient    that    her    Majestie's   affayres  in   these    partes   were 
managed  by  a  man  of  more  honour  and  sufficiencye   then  my- 
self,   but    accordinge    to    my   bounden    dewtye   I    must    attend 
her    Majestie's   good   pleasure.     So,  renewinge  my   prayers  for 


142  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

your  Grace,  I  eftsones  most   humbly   take    my  leave.     Oarlyll 
Castell,  this  9  of  August,  1598. 

Your  Gracesse  most  humbly  bounclen, 

He,  Leighe. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  verye  good  Lord, 
the  Lord  Archbishopp  of  Yorkc  his  Grace,  cheefe  of  her 
Majcstie's  Counsell  in  the  Northe  jmrtes. 

(The  signature  in  the  hand  of  H.  Leighe.     Seal  apparently  a  crest,  a  Wivcrn 
pierced,  an  erect  sword Liberabit.) 


LETTER  LXXXIV. 

LORD    SCROPE,    CONCERNING    SCOTISH    HOSTAGES,    ETC. 

12  August,  '98. 

Maye  it  please  your  good  Lordship  to  be  advertised  that 
it  is  her  Majestie''s  pleasure  and  direction  that  all  suche 
Scotishe  pledges  as  I  have  under  my  custodie  at  Carlell  be 
sent  to  Yorke,  to  bee  placed  with  the  reste  of  that  sorte. 
I  have  accordingly  willed  my  deputie  to  cause  them  be 
conveyed  to  Yorke,  jjraying  your  Lordship  to  cause  them 
be  placed  with  the  residue. 

I  would  have  scene  your  Lordship  at  my  now  cominge  downe, 
but  my  occasions  would  not  permite  mee ;  the  sizes  are  at 
hand,  and  then  I  shall  visite  your  Lordship.  Thus,  with  my 
right  hartie  comendations,  I  comite  your  Lordship  to  the 
grace  of  God.     Dunkester,  this  12'*"  of  August,  '98. 

Your  good  Lordship's  assured, 

Th.  Scroope. 

For  her  Majcstie's  special  affaires. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  the  Lord  Archbishop 
of  Yorke,  my  very  good  Lordc. 

Hast,  poste,  hM=t,  hast  !^Th.  Scroope. 

(Li  the  Earl's  hand.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  143 


LETTER  LXXXV. 

THE    ARCHBISHOP     OF    YORK    TO     TIMOTHY     HUTTON,     HIS     SON.^^ 

16  Aug.  1598. 

Salutem  in  Christo  !  I  am  glad  to  heare  that  you  and 
your  wife  bend  and  buckle  your  selves  so  well  towards  thryvinge. 
God  blesse  you  bothe,  and  yours,  and  geve  yow  much  comfort 
of  them.  Yow  are  put  in  the  commission  of  peace  within 
the  Northridinge,  and  I  referr  it  unto  your  choice,  whether 
you  will  come  to  take  th'  oath  before  the  judges  at  th'  assises, 
or  afterwardes.  There  are  so  few  justices  in  that  part  of  the 
countrie  that  I  feare  there  will  be  some  resorte  unto  yow, 
which  in  this  tyme  of  th'  infection  may  be  daingerous.  Com- 
mend me  to  my  daughter,  and  move  hir  to  continue  as  she 
hath  well  bemmne  to  hir  comforte  and  commendation.  And 
so  I  commend  yow  bothe  to  the  blessed  direction  of  the  best 
Director.     At  Yorke,  the  xvj"'  of  August,  1598. 

Your  loving  father, 

Matth.  Ebor. 

Postscript. — More  safetie  not  to  cooine,  but  more  present 
credit  to  come,  and  be  sworne  openlie  :  utere  tuo  juditlo.  Yf 
you  coome,  you  shalbe  welcome  ;  yf  you  come  not,  I  will  not 
take  it  in  evill  part.      Vale  in  Domino  ! 

Tuus  ut  suus, 

Matth.  Ebor. 

To  my  lovinge  sonne,  Tioiithie  Hutton,  at  Marske. 


^'  From  a  copy  in  D''.  Ducarell's  ]\Iemoir. 


144  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  LXXXVI. 

LORDES     OF    THE     COUNSELL     [tO    THE     ARCHBISHOP    OF     YORk], 
CONCERNING  SCOTISH    PLEDGES    AT    CARLISLE  TO  BE  BROUGHT 

TO    YORKE. 

18  Aug.  1598. 

Recep.  22. 

After  our  right  harty  commendacions  to  j^our  good  Lord- 
ship. Wee  have  perused  your  Lordship's  lettres,  with  the 
lettres  sent  from  Henry  Leighe,  Deputy  Warden  of  the  West 
Marches,  and  your  Lordship's  aunsvvere  unto  him,  concerning 
the  Scottyshe  pledges  ;  and  having  consydered  the  reason  that 
moved  your  Lordship  to  cause  M".  Leighe  to  stay  the  dehvery 
of  the  pledges  there  to  the  Sheriffe  of  Yorkeshire  untill  he  did 
heare  further  from  your  Lordship,  in  regard  of  the  infeccion 
of  the  place  they  come  from,  and  the  time  of  the  assises  in 
that  county"'s  being  at  hand.  Wee  do  thinke  your  Lordship 
did  the  same  with  good  judgement  and  advised  respect,  and 
therefore  wee  pray  your  Lordship  to  continue  that  direction 
unto  him  ;  but,  after  the  assises  shalbe  ended,  her  Majestie's 
pleasure  ys  the  pledges  shalbe  brought  to  Yorke  and  there 
commytted  to  the  Councell  to  be  kept  in  safe  custodye  with 
the  other  that  are  already  in  that  place.  Wherein  praying 
your  Lordship  to  give  dyreccion  accordingly,  wee  bydd  your 
good  Lordship  right  hartily  farewell.  From  the  Courte  at 
Greenwich,  the  18'"  of  August,  1598. 

Your  good  Lordship"'s  assured  loving  friends, 

ThOS.  EgERTON,   0.   S.  NOTINGHAM. 

G.  HuNSDON.  E).  North. 

W.  Knollys.  Ro.  Cecyll. 

^  For  her  Majcstie's  especiall  affaires. 

To  our  vcrry  good  Lord,  tlie  Lord  Archbyshop  of  Yorke, 
President  of  her  Majf^stic's  Cownsell  established  in  the 
Northc. 

Post  hast,  hast,  post  hast  !    At  the  Courte  at  Greenwich,  the  19th  of  August,  at 
12  of  the  clocke  in  the  forenoon. — Ro.  Cecyll. 
Ware,  20"*,  after  xij  in  the  daye. 

(Autograph  signatures.     Seal  wanting.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  145 


LETTER   LXXXVII. 

THE    ARCHBISHOP    OF    YORKE    TO    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

25  Feb.  1598-9.     (786.) 

Salutem  in  Christo  !  I  thank  yow  for  your  letter,  and  I 
pray  yow  thanke  M"^.  Lawson  hartely,  and  tell  him  I  am  not 
liable  to  deale  with  all  these  thinges  ;  notwithstanding-,  if  the 
milnes  be  fitt  for  your  house,  I  would  be  glad  to  serve  my  frends. 
It  is  not  like  they  be  of  that  worth  which  he  settes  downe, 
because  there  be  other  milnes  in  the  towne  ;^"  yet  if  yow  under- 
stand certainely  the  worth,  the  value,  the  tenure,  the  repara- 
tions, and  the  price,  I  will  tell  you  more.  Thus,  beseachinge 
God  to  blesse  yow  and  youres  with  his  manifold  graces,  I  bid 
3^0 w  hartelie  farewell.  From  Yorke,  in  haste,  Februar.  25, 
1598. 

Your  loving  father, 

Matth.  Ebor. 

To  my  lovinge  sonne,   Timothie  Hutton,  at  Marske,  with 
speecle. 

(Signature  ol'  the  Arclibishop  and  armorial  seal.) 


LETTER  LXXXVITL 

HER    MAJESTIe's    LETTER    TO     MY    LORD    ARCHBYSHOP    OF    YORK. 

24  Aug.  1599. 

Elizabeth  R.  By  the  Queene. 

Most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  our  right  trusty  and  wel- 
beloved,  wee  greete  you  well.  We  have  at  length  had  con- 
sideracion  of  your  greate  yeeres,  and  want  of  abilitie  of  body  to 
contynue  the  perfourmance  of  such  service  as  we  know  your 
mynde  doth  desire  at  all  tymes  to  doo  ns ;  and  have  upon  ex- 
perience founde  how  necessary  it  is  to  have  a  President  of  that 

^  Richmond. 


146  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

Counsell  establislied  there.  In  which  consideration,  (and  not 
the  lesse  by  your  own  remembrance  to  us  how  fitt  it  were  to 
estabhsh  in  that  country  a  ruler,)  we  have  bene  graciously 
pleased  to  discharge  you  of  that  service,  wherein  we  have  used 

your  service  since  the  decease  of  our  L President ;   and 

have  made  choice  of  our  right  trusty  and  welbeloved  the  Lord 
Bu  .  . . .  ey  for   the    same  office,  of  whose  discretion  and  duty 

towards  us  we  are  so  we ed  as  we  dowbte  not  but 

he  will  give  us   cause  to  approve  our  own   work.      In    which 

t,  as  we  doo  licence  you  to  retire  yourself  to  greater  ease 

after  you   shall    arted  to    him    the  wholle   state    of  thos 

contries,    so  we  dowbte  not  but  as  occ hall    serve  you 

will  from  tyme  to  tyme  give  your  best  advice  and  assistance  in 
any  ....  that  may  be  for  the  good  of  our  service  ;  and,  namely, 

for  as  much  as  we  understan the  great  defection  of  our 

subjects  in  matters  that  are  subject  to  the  power  you  have  of 
us  by  our  ecclesiasticall  commission,  (which  we  cannot  but 
impute  partly  to  the  want  of  good  instruction  of  the  younger 
sorte,  and  j)artly  to  over  much  tolleracion  used  to  recusants  and 
such  other  parsones,  who  have  bene  presented  for  their  offences 
in  such  and  other  lyke  cases  and  have  escaped  without  punish- 
ments,) wee  doo  require  you  not  only  to  joyne  with  our  said 
President  in  the  proceedings  in  those  causes  that  are  within  the 
said  ecclesiasticall  commission,  but  also  to  employe  all  your 
own  best  endevors  to  staye  the  flux  of  such  iniquitie,  which  hath 
in  manner  possessed  the  greatest  parte  of  those  northern  coun- 
treyes,  that  we  may  finde  the  fruts  to  be  such  of  your  better 
circumspection  as  our  people  may  be  reduced  from  those  greate 
errors,  which  make  them  so  apt  to  forgett  their  dueties  towards 
God  and  us,  being  suflfred  to  contemne  our  lawes  and  consti- 
tutions in  that  behalfe.  Given  under  our  signet,  at  our  manor 
of  Nonesuch,  the  xxiiij"'  of  August,  1599,  in  the  one  and  fortith 
yeer  of  our  raigne. 

WiNDEBANK. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  our  right  trusty  and 
welbeloved,  the  Archbisshop  of  York,  Primate  of  Eng- 
land. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  147 


LETTER  LXXXIX. 

LETTER    FROM    ARCHBISHOP   WHITGIFT    TO    ARCHBISHOP  HUTTON, 
ABOUT    THE    INCREASE    OF    PAPISTS. 

27  Aug.  1599. 

Salutem  in  Christo  !  Wee  here  have  the  hke  writts  frome 
the  Exchequer  to  certifie,  as  wee  are  also  bownde  to  doe  by  the 
commission  ytself.  The  bonds  wee  take  wee  duhe  certifie  into 
the  Exchequer,  when  they  are  forfayted ;  nether  can  wee  other- 
wise bestowe  or  imploy  them.  Owte  of  the  fines  wee  defray 
necessarie  charges,  which  are  nott  greate ;  the  rest  we  return 
also  into  the  Exchequer  ;  but  owre  fines  are  nott  greate  nor 
manie.  Towelling  your  self,  I  have  not  at  anie  time  hard  her 
Majestic  to  have  apprehended  anie  complaintes  against  you,  or 
to  have  conceaved  otherwise  then  well  of  you  ;  but  here  hathe 
bene  informations  gyven  that  recusants  are  of  late  increased  in 
that  province,  and  that  you  are  to  milde  with  them.  Some  of 
your  ministers  doe  also  affirme  the  same  to  be  trewe.  My 
advice  therefore  ys,  that  your  Lordship  make  a  true  declaration 
in  writing  how  that  province  standeth  in  that  poynte  and 
this  tyme ;  for  it  may  be  some  men's  pollicie  to  make  things 
worse  then  they  are,  to  efi'ect  there  desyers  and  to  wimi  the 
commendation  to  themselfes.  Assuer  yourself  that  I  will  do  my 
best  to  satisfye  all  objections,  yf  anie  shalbe,  especiallie  so  far  as 
I  knowe  and  shalbe  instructed.  I  can  testifie,  with  manie 
others,  how  desirous  you  were  to  leaA^e  that  troublesome  place 
of  government,  whereof  in  my  opinion  you  are  happilie  rydd. 
You  cannot  but  here  what  alarams  we  have  had,  and  yet  have, 
of  the  Spanyerds  approching.  It  hath  bene,  and  ys,  a  greate 
charges  to  the  clergie  of  this  province  :  you  and  your  clergie  are 
not  trowbled  therewith.  And  so,  with  my  verie  liartie  commen- 
dations, I  committ  you  to  the  tuition  of  Allmightie  God.  Frome 
Croidon,  the  27  of  Aug.  1599. 

Your  Grace\s  assuered  loving  frend  and  brother, 

Jo.  Cantuar. 

To  the  most  Reverend  in  Christe,  my  verie  good  Lord  and 
brother,  the  Lord  Archbishopp  of  York  his  Grace. 

(Wafer  seal  of  arms.     The  letter  in  the  hand  of  the  Arclibisliop.) 

L  2 


148  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  XC. 

SIR    JOHN    stanhope's    LETTER    TO    MY    LORd's    GRACE    OF 

YORKE. 

15  Nov.  1599.     (876.) 

It  maye  plese  your  Grace,  that,  iiiipon  the  receyte  of  your 
Grace's  letter,  I  did  lett  her  Majestie  uuderstaude  thereof,  who 
was  plesed  to  heare  yt  redd  unto  her  ;  and  afterwards  wylled 
me  to  advertyse  your  Grace,  that,  as  yt  was  very  true  that 
dyvers  informatj'ons  had  ben  delyvered  unto  her  of  the  greate 
encrese  of  recusants  in  Yorkshyre,  and  of  some  other  defects 
touchinge  the  abuses  of  the  bondes  due  to  her  Majestie  by  the 
course  of  the  hyghe  commyssion,  so  yett  did  neytlier  her 
l^ajestie  apprehende  them  as  thoughe  your  Grace  had  ben 
touched  therby,  neyther  did  her  Majestie  conceyve  yt  to  be 
the  yntent  of  those  who  did  informe  ;  for  her  Majestie,  havynge 
had  so  longe  tryall  of  your  Grace\s  good  government  in  these 
parts  these  many  yeares,  was  not  now  to  be  ledd  awaye  from  that 
opinyon  she  had  formerly  settled  of  your  Grace.  As  towchyng 
the  autorytye  of  a  presydent  commytted  to  your  Grace,  she  de- 
clared her  purpose  at  the  fyrst  to  be  only  till  such  tyme  as  she 
myghte  sende  one  downe  from  hence  ;  the  which  thoughe  yt  were 
longer  respyted  then  at  fyrst  was  mente,  yett  both  in  regarde 
your  Grace  desyered  it,  and  the  trobles  of  the  tyme  requyrynge 
yt,  she  had  now  hasted  to  performe  with  more  expedytyon. 
Her  Majestie  nothynge  dowbteth  butt  your  Grace  Avyll  contynue 
your  former  care  unto  the  ende,  to  the  furtherynge  both  of  God''s 
glorye  and  her  servyce ;  as  she  promyseth  to  contynue  her 
gratyus  opinyon  of  yow,  with  her  lyke  wishe  that  your  Grace 
may  contynue  longe  in  the  place  both  with  credytt  and  healthe. 
So,  humbly  recommendynge  my  servyce  to  your  Grace''s  favor,  I 
wyll  ever  praye  the  encrese  of  your  healthe  with  all  comforte. 
This  XV*''  of  November. 

Your  Grace's  very  humbly, 

J.  Stanhope. 

To  tlie  Riglit  Reverend  Fatlier  in  God,  my  verye  good  Lord, 

tlic  Lord  Archbysliopp  of  York  his  Grace. 
(Tlie  whole  in  the  hand  of  Sir  J.  Stanhope.     Armorial  seal  in  wax,  perfect.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  140 


LETTER  XCI. 

SIR    ROB.    CECYLL    TO     MY    LORd's    GRACE    OF    YORKE. 

December  26,  1599.     (542.) 

After  my  very  harty  commendacions  to  your  Grace.  Where 
her  Majestie  hath  ben  informed  of  the  deathe  of  M^  Do.  Binge, 
who  in  his  hefe  tyme  enioyed  a  prebend  in  this  churche,  which 
nowe  is  become  voyde  by  that  accydent ;  fForsomuch  as  it  pleased 
her  Majestie  to  use  her  recommendacion  unto  your  Grace  for  a 
lease  to  be  made  to  my  brother-in-lawe  M^  George  Brooke, 
whereunto  3'ou  dyd  not  assent,  but  in  Heu  thereof  you  made 
hym  a  graunt  of  the  next  prebend  that  should  fall  voyd  and  be 
in  your  Grace's  dysposycion,  I  have  thought  good  to  let  you 
knowe  that  her  Majestie  (vippon  this  occasion)  dothe  expect  from 
you  a  confyrmacion  of  that  which  you  have  begonne  and  in- 
tended towerds  the  gentleman,  being  one  of  whom  her  Majestie 
maketh  extraordynary  estymacion,  bothe  in  regard  of  the  affeccion 
which  she  bathe  heretofore  borne  to  his  parents,  and  the  par- 
tyculer  quallities  and  good  partes  wherwith  himself  is  quallyfyed. 
Thes  being  all  I  have  to  wryte  unto  your  Grace  for  the  present, 
I  take  my  leave.  From  the  Cort  at  Richmond,  the  xxvj"'  of 
Decem.,  1599. 

Your  Grace"'s  very  loving  and  assured  freind, 

Ro.  Cecyll. 

To  the  most  Reverent  ffatlier  in  God,  my  very  good  Lord, 
the  Lord  Archbishopp  of  York's  Grace. 

(Small  oval  seal  in  wax,  containing  the  family  crest,  with  the  motto  Skuo  sed 
SERio.     The  signature  in  the  hand  of  Cecyll.) 


150  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  XCII. 

RICHARD    VAUGHAN,    BISHOP    OF    CHESTER,    TO    THE    ARCHBISHOP 

OF    YORK. 

2  Jan.  1600. 

My  dutie  moste  humblie  remembered  unto  your  Grace.  My 
very  good  Lord,  in  a  pointe  of  some  difficulty  yt  is  thought 
meet  by  us  of  the  Ecclesiasticall  Commission  here  to  knowe 
your  grave  resohicion  and  sage  advyse,  that  we  may  proceed 
with  more  equitye  in  the  cause,  and  fuller  satissfaction  to  our 
selves.  So  yt  is  (my  good  Lord)  Hughe  Harison,  of  the  countie 
of  Chester  and  parishe  of  Aldford,  havinge  about  eighte  yeares 
paste  solempnly  marled  one  Alice  Cowley,  with  whome  he  lived 
after  marriage  about  a  moneth,  more  or  lesse,  and  then  buryinge 
her  marled  her  natural  and  full  sister,  with  whome  he  hath  lived 
some  seaven  yeares  at  leaste,  and  hath  by  her  twoe  children  (as 
I  conceave  yt)  incestuouslye  begotten  ;  the  said  tiarison  al- 
ledgeth  for  himselfe  and  deposeth  that  he  never  knew  the  firste, 
by  reason  of  her  sicknes  whereof  she  dyed,  and  that  his  cause 
hathe  bene  before  twoe  of  my  predicessors,  and  also  your  Grace''s 
visitors,  and  nothinge  determyned  concernynge  the  matter,  ether 
to  allowe  or  disallowe  yt.  I  am  not  ignorant  of  the  difference 
in  judgmente  of  devynes  in  this  case,  and  liowe  muche  this 
pointe  hath  exercysed  this  kingdome ;  but  for  myne  owne 
opinion  I  am  resolute,  thoughe  there  be  no  proofe  of  carnall 
knowledge  of  the  firste  (whereof  notwithstandinge  there  are 
stronge  presumptions),  yet  I  hold  the  mariage  with  the  seacond 
to  be  impious,  and  so  scandelous  an  example,  that  yt  oughte  by 
no  meanes  to  be  endured  in  any  parte  of  Goddes  Churclie.  In 
this  case  I,  for  my  selfe  and  in  the  name  of  the  reste,  do  iii- 
stantlie  crave  in  fewe  lynes  your  Grace's  resolucion,  upon  which 
wee  purpose  to  relye,  and  to  proceede  accordinglie.  And  so,  sub- 
mittinge  my  selfe  to  your  deepe  judgemente,  with  my  heartie 
vvishinge  unto  your  Grace  of  many  newe  yeares  and  prosperous. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  151 

I  liumblie  take  my  leave.     Chester,  the  seacond  of  Janiiarye 
1599. 

Your  Grace's  most  humblie  at  commaundment, 

Ric.   Cestren. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  very  good  Lord, 
the  Lord  Archbishoppe  of  Yorke  his  Grace,  give  tliese. 

(Seal,  the  arms  of  the  sec  of  Chester  impaling  Vaughan,  a  Chevron  between 
three  flem'-de-lis.) 


LETTER  XCIII. 

GEORGE    FLOYD,    BISHOP    OF    MANNE,    TO    THE    ARCHBISHOP 
OF     YORKE. 

4  January,  1600. 

My  moste  humble  dutie  remembred  unto  your  Grace.  My 
very  good  Lord,  the  bishoppricke  of  Mann  beinge  bestowed  by 
her  Highnes'  gracious  favor  upon  me,  thoughe  unworthie,  I  had 
in  purpose,  accordinge  to  my  dutie,  to  have  attended  your  Grace 
upon  this  occasion  ;  but  fyndinge  my  bodye  weake  by  reason  of 
my  late  travill  from  London,  and  my  purse  emptyed  with  longe 
sute  there,  I  was  bold  by  this  messenger  to  acquainte  your 
Grace  therewith,  and  to  understand  by  him  your  pleasure  for  my 
consecration,  accordinge  to  the  teanor  of  my  lettres  patents : 
wherein,  as  my  very  good  Lord  the  Bishoppe  of  Chester  hatha 
by  his  lettres  solicited  your  Grace  for  your  honorable  favor  and 
respecte  of  my  poore  estate,  so  do  I  humblie  pray  your  Grace 
that  you  wold  be  pleased  to  give  me  as  muche  ease,  both  for  tra- 
vill and  expence,  as  you  may,  consideringe  the  smallnes  of  the 
bishoppricke  and  tyme  of  the  yeare  unpleasante  for  me,  and, 
moste  of  all,  for  my  Lords  the  Bishops  of  the  province  to  attend 
you  for  this  necessary  ymployment.  Li  which  respects  my 
moste  humble  requeste  is,  that  your  Grace  will  be  pleased  to 
grant  your  commission  to  my  Lord  of  Chester,  to  authorise  him 
to  joyne  with  twoe  other  Bishopps  neare  unto  him  (of  whose 
voluntary  readynesse  I  doubt  not)  for  the  performinge  of  this 
action.     And  so,  recommendinge  my  selfe  nowe  and  alwaies  to 


152  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

your  Grace's  good  favor  and  honorable  supporte  in  that  poore 
place,  wishinge  your  Grrace's  longe  continewance  in  all  health 
and  happynesse,  I  humblie  take  my  leave.  Chester,  this  iiij^*"  of 
January,  1599.         Your  Grace's  in  all  humility  to  command, 

Georg.  Floyd. 

To  the  mostc  Reverend  Father  in  God,  my  very  good  Lord, 
the  Lord  Archhishoppe  of  Yorke  his  Grace,  give  these. 


LETTER   XCIV. 

DR.  GOODWYN  TO  MY  LORD's  GRACE  OF  YORKE. 
1  Jan.  (1600?) 

MosTE  Reverend  and  my  very  gratious  good  Lorde,  (my 
moste  humble  duety  unto  your  Grace  premised,)  I  must  and 
will,  while  I  live,  acknowledge  that  I  am  so  much  bounde  unto 
your  Grace  that  I  can  nott  tell  how  to  make  the  least  part  of 
amends,  nay,  I  sholde  bee  exceeding  gladd  if  I  knew  by  what 
means  I  colde  open  myne  hearte  to  your  Grace's  eyes,  and  shew 
but  some  lively  signification  of  myne  unfayned  thanckfulnes.  A 
very  homely  and  slender  shadowe  hereof  I  beseech  your  Grace 
to  accept  in  good  parte,  (from  one  that  wisheth  better  then  hee 
can  performe,)  not  as  a  pra^sent  woorthy  your  Grace,  but  as  a 
pledge  of  that  duety  and  service  which  I  owe  and  vowe  unto  your 
Grace  ;  of  that  love  and  kindenes  which,  to  the  uttermoste  of 
my  power,  I  binde  and  oblige  my  selfe  to  performe  to  any  that 
during  my  lyfe  shall  but  use  your  Grace's  name  unto  mee. 
Thus,  beeseeching  God  from  the  bottome  of  my  hearte  (as  hee 
knowes  best,  who  best  knowes  my  hearte)  to  send  your  Grace 
many  good  and  happy  dayes  and  yeares  among  us,  and,  in  the 
end,  the  full  measure  of  those  inestimable  blessings  which  hee 
reserveth  in  heaven  for  his  dearest  children,  I  leave  to  bee 
troublesome  to  your  Gi-ace,  commending  the  same  to  the 
moste  gracious  protection  of  the  highest  Majesty.  This  first 
of  January.  Your  Grace's,  ever  to  be  commaunded, 

WiLLM.   Goodwin. 
To  the  moste  Reverend  Father  in  God,  his  very  good  Lorde 

and  patrone,  my  Lord  Archbisliop  of  Yorke  his  Grace, 

Primate  and  MetropoHtane  of  Enghind. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  153 

LETTER  XOV. 

MR.  Brooke's  letter  to  my  lord's  grace  of  york. 

May  8,  1600.     (563.) 

Right  Reverend  Father  and  my  very  good  Lord,  I  accompte 
my  selfe  most  bounde  unto  your  Grace,  nexte  unto  her  Majestie, 
for  bestowing  upon  me  the  prebende  of  Strensall.  But  for 
that  the  same  is  so  small  a  thinge,  and  lyes  so  farre  from 
me  that  I  cannot  take  that  benefit  by  it  which  otherwise  I 
mighte,  I  am  therefore  determyned  to  resigne  my  interest  unto 
M^  Whaly,  a  Bachelor  of  Divynitie,  and  a  gentleman  above 
all  exception  both  for  his  learninge  and  conversation,  for  whome 
I  humbly  pray  your  Grace''s  favourable  allowaunce,  and  that  you 
wilbe  pleased  to  admitte  him  thereunto  ;  which  I  shall  take 
for  as  greatt  a  favour  as  if  I  were  to  holde  it  myselfe.  And 
for  that  I  knowe  you  prize  more  my  frendes*"  thanckes  then 
myne  owne,  I  assure  your  Grace  they  will  also  holde  themselves 
as  well  satisfied.  So,  recommending  the  same  to  your  Grace's 
good  consideration,  I  humbly  take  my  leave.  From  my  howse 
in  Blackfriars,  the  viij"'  of  May,  1600. 

Your  Grace's  moste  humble  at  commaundemente, 

George  Brooke. 

To  the  Right  Reverend  Ftitlier  in  God,  the  Lord  Archbishop 
of  Yorke. 


LETTER  XOVL 

A    LETTER    FROM    THE    LORD    ARCIIBYSIIOP    OF    YORKE     TO   THE 
LORD    ARCHBYSHOP    OF    CANTERBURIE. 

Maie  20,  1600.     (819.) 

[From  a  copy.] 

Salutem  in  Aucthore  salutis  !  I  am  verie  sorie  that,  after 
so  manie  ycres  of  moste  wise  and  happie  government,  manifest 
displeasures  appear  among  so  worthie  Counsellors.     God  grant  it 


154  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

be  not  a  prognostication  of  some  great  storme  to  this  noble 
kingdome. 

Three  thinges  there  be  which  threaten  daingers,  if  not  mine, 
to  Commonweals,  privatum  co7nmodum,  latens  odium,  juvenile 
consilium. 

The  first  perverteth  justice  and  upright  dealing. 

The  second  seeketh  revenge,  though  it  be  with  dainger  :  JIc&o 
ipsa  pollens  incli/ti  Pelopis  domus  mat  vel  in  me,  dummodo  in 
fratrem  ruat. 

The  third,  by  not  forecasting  future  events,  hathe  through 
temerity  turned  manie  States, — Cedo,  qiti  vestram  rempuhlicam 
tantam  amisistis  tarn  cito  f  respondentur  alia,  et  hcec  in  primis, 
Proveniebant  oratores  novi,  c^c.  stulti  adolescentuli, — especially 
when  these  three  doe  concurr  together,  and  that  in  the  fullness 
of  time  when  God  hath  appointed  to  alter  states,  and  when  the 
sinne  of  the  people  is  ripe.  The  palme  of  the  hand  that  writt 
on  the  wall  Mene  and  Tekel,  (Dan.  5)  added  also  Phares ;  be- 
cause, whensoever  the  fulnes  of  time  and  rijienes  of  sinne  doe 
meete  together,  then  doeth  God  exequute  his  judgement  upon 
kingdomes,  as  he  did  then,  &c.  The  two  first  of  these  are 
knowne  onelie  to  God.  The  third,  when  it  cometh,  is  like  to  be 
knowne,  scene,  and  felt  to  manie.  We  loke  to  the  second 
causes,  and  by  them  guess  defuturis  contingentihus,  as,  concordia 
res  parv(C  crescunt,  discordia  maxima  dilabuntur.  I  praie  God 
the  jarring  at  home  doe  not  incorage  the  rebelles  in  Ireland  and 
elsewhere.  I  take  it  to  be  against  good  policy  for  a  great  prince 
to  keepe  a  longe  and  lingeringe  warr  with  a  subject  nation, 
though  the  people  be  never  so  base  ;  for  it  teacheth  them  to 
be  skilfuU,  stout,  and  resolute,  as  appeareth  by  the  Low 
Countries.  God  graunt  it  may  not  appeare  by  Ireland  !  The 
people  there  are  growne  verie  valiant  and  desperate,  and,  being 
liable  to  abide  all  kind  of  hardines,  take  the  benefite  of  the 
contrie,  of  woods  and  bogges,  and  are  like  to  hoidd  out  a  long 
time,  without  the  losse  of  more  noblemen  and  captaines  then 
may  be  well  spared  in  England.  Besides  that,  manie  of  our 
English  nation  (nescio  quomodo)  are  verie  unwilling  to  go 
thither;  and  many  tall  men  at  home,  when  they  come  there, 
prove  cowards,  and  the  verie  contry  consumeth  them.  There- 
fore (in  myne  opinion)  it  were  not  amisse  for  yow  of  hir 
Majestie's  Counsell  to  thinke  rather  of  an  honorable  peace,  than 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  155 

to  indainger  so  manie  noblemen,  valiant  captaines,  and  dutifull 
subjects,  and  perhaps  (in  time)  the  losse  of  that  kingdome. 
Yow  and  I  are  men  of  peace,  and  therefore  I  am  bould  to  write 
mito  yow,  beinge  nere  to  hir  Majestic,  &c.  It  would  comfort 
a  verie  great  nombre  of  hir  Majestie''s  best  subjects  if  shee 
would  be  pleased  to  stretch  forthe  the  goulden  scepter  (Esther,  5) 
to  that  noble  geutleman^^  now  abiding  the  frownes  of  fortune, 
and  to  cause  a  sure  and  hartie  reconciliation.  The  parties  are 
verie  wise  and  most  worthie  Counsellors.  They  are  raised 
almoste  wholly  by  hir  Majestic,  therefore  (no  doubt)  wilbe 
ruled  willingly  ;  and  shee  hathe  bene  moste  gratious  unto 
bothe  parties,  therefore  may  and  should  rule  and  overrule  bothe 
parties.  Hir  Majestic,  by  long  experience,  hathe  gotten  the 
verie  habitum  of  deepe  and  sound  wisdome,  and  all  heroicall 
vertues  ;  so  that  I  make  no  doubt  but  that  shee  will,  of  hir 
owne  inclynation,  shew  clemencle  and  mercy,  &c.  The  Lord 
for  his  mercies'  sake  blesse  this  land  with  hir  Majestie\s  long  and 
prosperous  reigne,  and  yow  also,  that  yow  may  long  serve  hir,  to 
the  good  of  his  Church.  From  Cawood,  the  xx"'  of  Maie, 
1600. 

Your  Grace's  in  Christe  most  assured, 

Matth.  Ebor. 


LETTER  XCVIL 

THE  LORD  OF  CANTERBURY'S  LETTER  TO  MY  LORd's  GRACE 

OF    YORK. 

7°  JuNii  1600. 

Salutem  in  Christo  !  I  have  receaved  both  your  letters ; 
that  by  your  sonne-in-lawe  M^  Bowes,  and  the  other  of  the 
xxv*^  of  May.  I  would  to  God  yoiar  Grace"'s  advise  and  desier 
in  the  first  might  take  place,  as  I  hope  it  will,  there  appearing 
no  evident  token  to  the  contrary.  I  have  perused  the  copie  of 
the  letter  which  you  writt  to  the  noble  man,  and  his  answere  ; 
wherein  I  note  the  spirite  of  suche  humours  as  those  are 
possessed  witheall  to  whom  (as  it    is   thought)  hee   doeth  too 

^•*  The  Earl  of  Essex. 


156  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

mnche  inclyne.  Scientia  non  hahet  inimicum  nisi  ignorantem. 
A  man  had  better  take  upon  him  to  pei'swade  xx*''  learned  men 
that  are  not  propositi  defensores,  then  one  suche.  I  have  re- 
ceaved  the  copie  of  a  sermon  preached  there  in  the  defense  (as 
it  seemeth)  of  the  haling  of  your  recusantes  to  sermons  ;  but 
his  name  I  knowe  not.  Hee  alleageth  both  scriptures  and 
doctors ;  but  nothing  to  the  purpose  in  myne  opinion.  You 
knowe  that  Christe's  compelle  intrare,  and  suche  like  phrases  in 
the  Newe  Testament,  are  farre  from  meaning  of  any  suche 
violence.  And  so  is  'St.  Augustine's  si  terrerentur  et  non  do- 
cerentur,  and  the  rest  of  the  places  of  his  and  others  the  doctors 
alleaged  in  that  sermon.  True  it  is  (as  you  knowe)  that 
St.  Augustine  and  others  doo  allowe,  in  suche  cases,  ponishment 
and  compulsion ;  but  not  in  that  sorte.  Neither  did  I  ever 
reade  that  any  Christian  prince  or  magistrate  drewe  any 
ethnickes  or  heretikes  either  to  preaching  or  praying  ;  nor  to 
my  remembraunce  was  it  used  in  Queen  Marie"'s  tyme  to  the 
professors  of  the  Gospell  :  but  I  reade  that  heathenish  princes 
have  in  that  maner  drawen  Christians  to  their  sacrifices.  But 
everie  man  aboundes  in  his  owne  sense.  Yf  good  come  of  it,  it 
is  well,  and  they  have  to  glorie  in  their  dooinge  ;  yf  otherwise, 
then  experience,  which  is  sHdtorum  mapistra,  will  teache  them  to 
see  their  owne  error.  In  the  meane  tyme  I  would  not  wish  your 
Lordship  to  contend  with  them  in  that  matte]-,  least  they  say 
that  zeale  is  quenched  in  you,  and  that  you  doate  in  your  old 
age,  as  it  pleaseth  some  here  to  say  of  mee  ;  and  yet,  peradven- 
ture,  when  wee  are  gone,  they  Avill  wish  us  alyve  agayne.  I  am 
here  verie  much  troubled  with  the  appeasing  of  newe  controver- 
sies about  prsedestination,  justification,  liberum  arbitrium,  the 
state  of  the  Fathers  before  the  coming  of  Christe,  inheerent 
justice,  and  suche  like  matters,  never  doubted  of  by  any  pro- 
fessor of  the  Gospell  during  all  the  tyme  of  your  aboade  and 
myne  in  the  universitie.  But  suche  is  the  malice  of  the  devil, 
and  pryde  of  men  glorieng  in  their  owne  wittes.  My  Lord  of 
London  is  not  yet  retourned  from  Embden,  neither  have  T 
heard  from  him  but  once  since  their  arryvall  there.  Upon 
Thurseday  last  the  Earle  of  Essex  was  called  before  the 
Lords  of  the  Counsile,  and  diverse  others  appointed  by  her 
ALajesty  to  sitt  with  us,  for  the  hearing  of  the  cause  ;   as,  the 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  157 

Erles  of  Shrevvesburie,  Worcestre,  Oombei'land,  and  Huntiiigtoii ; 
the  Lordes  Zouche  and  Darcie  ;   the  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Common   Pleas,   the    Lord   Chief  Baron,   Justice   Gawdie,   and 
Justice  Walmesley  :   the  totall  number  of  Counsellors  and  others 
were    xviij.      The   place   of  sitting  was  at   the   Lord    Keeper's 
in  York  house,  where  wee  sate  from  viij  of  the  clock  in   the 
morning  till  it  was  almost  ix  at  night,    without  ether  eating, 
drinking,  or  rysing.     The   Earle  was  charged  by  the  Queene's 
learned  Counseile,  who  objected  against  him  and  urged  v  thinges 
especially,    viz.  :      the    placing    of   the    Earle    of   Southampton 
lieutenant  of  the  horsse,  against  her  Majestie's  commaundement ; 
the  making  of  so  many  knightes,   contrarie  to  her  pleasure  like- 
wise ;    the  not  going  into  the   North  partes  against  the  rebell 
while  our  forces  were  strong,  according  to  the  direction  geven 
him  here  before  hee  went  and  his  owne  consent,  and  contrarie 
to  directions  sent  him  from  hence  after  his  arryvall  in  Ireland, 
&c. ;    his  parleeing  with  the  rebell,  &c, ;  and  his  coming  over 
from    thense,    against   the    Queene''s    expresse  commaundement. 
The  Earle  aunswered  with  great  submission,  and,  after  a  vehe- 
ment protestation  of  his  loyaltie  and  true  harte  to  the  Queene 
and  the  State,  hee  confessed  his  error  in  all  theis  poyntes,  and 
did  forbeare  to  make  any  qualifieng  of  them,  or  to  contest  with 
her   Majesty  touching  the    same  ;     saving  in  some  particulars, 
wherein  the  Lords  were  desierouse  to  bee  satisfied.     Hereupon 
wee   proceeded   to  judgement,   every   man    gevinge   his   censure 
particularly  from   the  first  to  the  last ;  and  all  agreed  in  this 
sentence,  that    my  Lord  should  retourne    to    his    owne  house, 
from  whence  he   came,  and  there   remayne  as  he  did  beefore, 
during  her  INIajestie's  pleasure  ;  that  hee  should  deale  no  more 
in  matters  of  Counseile,  nor  take  himself  to  bee  a  Counseiler  ; 
that  hee  should  not  meddle  himself  in  causes  belonging  to  the 
Earle  Marshall,  nor  in  the  office  of  Master  of  the  Ordinavmce. 
And  this  was  the  end  of  that  action.      You  may  think  your- 
self beholden  unto  mee  for  writing  so  long  a  letter,  having  so 
litle  leasure  ;  but  I  thought  you  were  desierouse  to  have  myne 
opinion  in  the  first,  and  to  knowe  the  trueth  in  the  latter.     My 
Lorde's    frendes   doo  hope    that  this  her   Majestie's  mylde  and 
mercifuU   proceeding   with  him    will    in   shorte   tyme    work   his 
further  good,  according  to  her  accustomed  demencie,  wh(erein) 


158  CORRESPONDENCE.    ETC. 

she  doeth  excell.     Vale  in  Ohristo  !     From  Lambehith,  the  vlj"' 
of  June,  1600. 

Tuus  ill  Christo, 

Jo.  Oantuar. 

To rend  in  Ch he  good  Lorde  ....  brother, 

the  Archebishopp  of  York  his  Grace. 

(The  signature  and  the  words  Tuns  in  Christo,  are  in  the  Archbishop's 
own  hand.) 


LETTER  XCVITI. 

TALBOT,  ERLE  OF  SHREWESBURIE,  TO  MY  LORD's  GRACE  OF 

YORK. 

10  Sep.  1600.     (821.)     The  42'i  bundell.      • 

MosTE  Revereucl  and  my  very  good  Lord,  I  lately  receaved  a 
letter  from  your  Grace  on  the  behalfe  of  the  vycar  of  Tuxford, 
who  demandeth  eertayne  tythe  wood  of  a  small  parcell  of  un- 
derwood which  I  lately  soulde.  Wherupon  I  sent  presently  for 
my  servant  and  officer  who  made  sale  of  that  wood,  to  under- 
stand therof,  who  toulde  me  that  he  thought  ther  was  no  tythe 
therof  due  unto  him,  for  that  ther  is  and  hathe  alwayes  bene 
payd  a  noble  yearly  to  that  vicaredge,  which  (as  he  taketh  it) 
is  as  well  in  respect  of  the  woods  as  the  herbadge  ther  ;  as  the 
very  lyke  is  in  other  grounds  and  woods  of  myne  ther  adioyn- 
inge,  called  Welley,  wher  a  noble  is  jjayde  to  the  parson  in 
respect  of  herbadge  and  wood.  Howbeit,  for  that  I  perceave, 
(whether  it  be  due  or  not,)  yet  that  this  owlde  vicar  hathe  bene 
compounded  with  for  tythe  of  the  wood  eyther  once  or  twyse 
in  his  owne  tyme,  and  for  that  I  wysh,  as  muche  as  any,  that  all 
dutyes  to  the  church  sholde  be  payd,  I  caused  my  sayd  offycer 
to  make  his  present  repayre  to  the  vycar,  and  to  offer  him  as 
muche,  or  rather  more,  then  he  had  for  composition  of  my 
father  the  last  tyme  that  the  same  wood  was  felled;  who  did  so 
accordyngly,  and  offered  unto  him  fyve  marks  in  monny,  which 
is  as  muche  or  more  then  he  had  the  last  tyme  :  but  he  refused  it, 
and    demanded   more,    which    I    thynke    not    reasonable.      But 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  159 

whether  he  have  better  bethought  him  selfe  synee,  and  so  hathe 
accepted  therof,  or  not,  I  know  not ;  but  whether  he  have  or  not, 
though  the  matter  be  but  a  very  tryfell  and  far  unworthy  to 
troble  your  Grace  with,  yet  synce  it  pleased  you  to  wryte  to  me 
therin,  bothe  to  gyve  you  satisfaction  of  my  due  respecte  to  any 
thynge  that  shall  cum  from  your  Grace  to  me,  as  also  that  I 
am  far  from  intent  to  prejudice  any  man,  espetially  of  his  cote,  in 
any  dutyes  to  the  church,  be  thei  gret  or  smale,  and  havynge 
this  convenient  messenger,  (who  intreats  me  to  gyve  your  Grace 
humble  thanks  for  your  great  favore  to  him  the  last  tyme  he 
wayted  upon  you,  which  hereby  I  doe,)  I  have  thought  good  to 
be  troblesome  to  your  Grace  with  so  many  words  therof,  wherin 
I  crave  your  pardone.  It  pleased  your  Grace,  in  a  postcript  of 
your  owne  hande,  to  wysh  that  eyther  I  had  some  good  occasion 
to  cum  to  Yorke,  or  that  your  hability  of  boddy  were  liable  to 
travayle  to  Southwell,  that  you  myght  see  my  wyfe  and  me,  &c. 
This  favore,  I  assure  your  Grace,  we  take  very  thankfully ;  and, 
coulde  we  doe  you  any  manner  of  service  or  pleasure,  we  wolde 
quyckly  make  a  jorny  to  Bisshopsthorpe,  weare  it  but  only  to  see 
you.  For  your  Grace"'s  commynge  to  Southwell,  I  suppose  this 
sommer  is  too  far  spent  to  be  in  hope  to  see  you  ther  ;  but  the 
next  sprynge,  if  it  please  God  to  graunte  all  well,  me  thynks 
your  Grace  may  doe  exceedyngly  well  to  cum  thither.  You  may 
cum  fyrst  to  Cawood,  from  thence  to  Scrowby,  and  so  to  Rugh- 
ford,  a  peece  of  an  owlde  abbay  of  myne,  wher,  although  the 
house  be  far  onfyt  for  you,  yet  your  Grace  sholde  be  as  welcum 
to  it  as  to  any  house  in  England,  and  ther  to  rest  as  longe  as 
wolde  please  you ;  then  have  you  to  Southwell  but  7  miles.  I 
nothynge  doubte  (with  God's  favore)  but  that  your  boddy  will 
be  well  liable  in  May  next  to  performe  a  greater  jorney  then  this 
is  :  you  myght  cast  your  jorneys  so  as  not  to  travayle  past  x 
myles  a  day  the  longest.  Your  Grace  bathe  a  whole  wynter  to 
bethynke  your  selfe  of  this  great  matter,  and  I  j^ray  you  gyve 
me  leave  to  put  you  in  mynde  hereof  aboute  Easter  next;  for  I 
assure  your  Grace  I  wolde  be  very  glad  to  see  you  in  any  house 
of  myne,  espetially  at  Worksop,  which  were  not  syx  myles  oute 
of  your  way  to  Southwell,  but  rather  then  fayle  at  Rugliford, 
though  it  be  a  worse  house  than  ever  I  thynke  any  Archbishop 
was  intertayned  at  by  an  Earle.     I  am  ashamed  to  have  held  your 


160  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

Grace  so  longe  with  so  idell  matter ;  but  I  crave  pardone,  and 
commyt  your  Grace  to  the  protection  of  Alhnyghty  God.  From 
Sheffekl  Lodge,  this  x  of  September,  1600. 

Your  Grace's  moste  assured  frend  at  your  comandment, 

GiLB.  Shrewsbury. 

My  wyfe  wyssheth  your  Grace  perfect  health  and  longe  lyfe, 
and  desyreth  to  be  humbly  commended  unto  you. 

To  the  moste  Reverend  Father,  and  my  very  good  Lord,  the 

Lord  Arclibisshop  of  York  his  Grace. 
(The  whole  of  this  very  interesting  letter  is  the  Earl's  own  handwriting.) 


LETTER  XCIX. 

MY    lord's    grace     HYS     LETTER    [tO    TIMOTHY.  HUTTON, 
HIS    SON.] 

OcTOB.  2,   1600. 

Salutem  in  Christo  !  I  like  your  letter,  but  I  doe  feare  your 
brother  will  prove  a  carelesse  unthrefTt.  My  Lord  Latimer 
claimeth  the  milnes  at  Richmonde.  I  pray  you  talke  with  old 
M^  Pepper,  whose  father  boght  the  milnes  off  M\  John  Philips, 
and  learne  off  him  off  whom  M^  Philips  did  buie  them,  and  off 
whom  that  man  did  buie  them,  and  so  upward  as  longe  before 
as  you  can  ;  and  also  what  title  my  Lord  Latimer  maketh  unto 
them  an  the  others  milnes  there,  and  he  reporteth  that  M^  Law- 
son  hath  compounded  with  him,  and  did  ofler  unto  me  to  com- 
pounde,  &c.,  for  the  land  in  Wensdale  ....  and  Marske  latelie 
purchased.  I  thinke  the  Queue's  auditor  wilbe  desyrous  to  see 
your  purchase,  &c.  ;  they  cost  me  vij"  and  Ix''.  I  must  have  xx 
wethers  everie  Easter,  untill  I  can  make  better  provision.  Your 
Sonne  is  well,  God  be  thanked,  and  this  day  in  the  minster  garthe 
off  his  owne  accord  did  aske  Jackson  howe  his  grandsier  did. 
Commend  me  to  my  doghter  and  to  yours  also.  Yorke,  the  2  off 
October,  1600. 

Your  lovinge  father, 

Matth,  Ebor. 

(Li  the  Archbishop's  own  hand.     Seal,  York  impaling  Hutton,  with  the 
Hntton  crest  between  the  letters  M.  and  E.) 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  161 


LETTER  C. 

HER  MAJESTIE's  LETTER  TO  MY  LORD  ARCHBYSHOP  OF  YORK, 
1601. A  DISPENSATION  FOR  BEINGE  ABSENT  FROM  PAR- 
LAMENT. 

25"' off  October,  1601. 

Elizabeth  R.  By  the  Qiieene. 

Most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  our  right  trusty  and  right  well- 
beloved,  we  greete  yow  well.  Where,  for  divers  causes  and  good 
considerations,  we  have  thought  convenient  to  summon  our  high 
Court  of  Parlement  to  be  holden  at  our  citie  of  Westminster 
the  xxvij"^  of  October  in  this  xliij"^  yeere  of  our  raigne,  and 
have  caused  our  writt  of  sommons  to  be  addressed  unto  you 
among  others  for  your  being  and  assisting  there  :  forasmuch  as 
we  understand  that  neyther  in  respect  of  your  greate  yeeres  nor 
of  your  want  of  helth  you  are  liable  to  com  up  without  greate 
danger  to  your  parson,  we  are  therfore  pleased  to  give  you 
licence  and  heerby  doe  licence  yow  to  be  absent  from  our  sayde 
Parlement,  our  said  writt  or  any  thing  therin  conteyned  not- 
withstanding ;  so  nevertheles  as  you  cause  your  proxie  to  be 
sent  in  convenyent  tyme  to  a  meet  parsonnage,  who  may  for  you 
and  in  your  name  give  his  voyce  and  consent  to  such  matters  as 
are  and  shall  be  there  treated  and  concluded.  Given  under 
our  signett,  at  our  mannor  of  Richmond,  the  xxv^*^  of  October, 
1601,  in  the  xhij**^  yeer  of  our  raigne. 

WiNDEBANK. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  our  right  trusty  and 
right  wellbeloved,  the  Archbisshoj)  of  York. 

(The  Queen's  signature.) 


M 


162  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  CI. 

W.  DARCEY  TO  THE  ARCHBISHOP  OF  YORK. 

13  Mar.  1601-2. 

May  it  please  your  Grace.  I  have  beene  moved  to  write  unto 
you  in  the  behalf  of  younge  Francs  Phillipps,^*  for  a  lease  which 
he  pretendeth  from  her  Majestic  unto  him  for  his  lief  within  the 
lordshipp  of  Marske,  that  your  Grace  would  permitt  him  to 
enjoy  it  for  his  better  preferment  at  this  tyme,  or  els  that  you 
would  be  respectfull  of  him  some  otherwaies  in  regard  thereof; 
wich  the  rather  I  intreate  for  my  sake  your  Grace  would  re- 
specte,  and  what  kindnes  you  shall  doe  unto  him  I  shall 
acknowledge  it  as  done  unto  my  self.  And  so  I  committ  you  to 
th' Almightie's  proteccion.     Aston,  this  xiij"^  of  Marche,  1601. 

Your  Grace*'s  to  command, 

W.  Darcey. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  Mathew,  Archbushopp 
of  Yorke,  Prymate  and  Metropolitane  of  England,  his 


Grace. 


(Signature  autograph.) 


LETTER  Cn. 

MY    LORD    OF    CANTERBURIE's     LETTER    TO    MY    LORD's    GRACE 

OF     YORKE. 

17  May,  1602. 

Salutem  in  Ohristo  !  I  had  speach  of  late  with  the  Lord 
Burghley  towching  your  self.     His  Lordship  did  gyve  verie  good 

^'  The  Phillipps's  were  owners  of  Marske  before  the  purchase  of  the  estate 
by  Archbishop  Hutton.  With  respect  to  that  family,  and  the  incantations 
under  which  it  laboured,  see  Clarkson's  Richmond,  p.  345  ;  and  Whitaker's 
Richmondshire,  i.  p.  195.  But,  in  reality,  were  any  such  tablets  found  upon 
Gatherly  Moor,  and  where  arc  they  now  ?  A  suspicion  may  be  reasonably  en- 
tertained that  the  whole  story  of  these  tablets  was  a  wicked  invention. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  163 

testimonie  of  you,  onelie  he  fownde  hymself  cHscontcnted  that 
you  seme  to  estrange  your  self  frome  hym  by  absenting  your 
self  from  York  when  he  is  there,  saying  that  your  prassens 
sometymes  there  wokl  do  much  good ;  he  wished  also  that  you 
wold  take  paynes  now  and  then  to  here  causes  your  self,  and  not 
to  committ  them  wholie  to  your  other  officers.  Your  Grace 
knoweth  how  althings  prosper  where  there  is  Concorde,  and  what 
effects  the  same  dothe  work  bothe  in  Church  and  civill  govern- 
ment ;  and  therefore  I  do  wisch  and  assuer  my  self  that  you 
will  have  an  especiall  care  thereof.  Vis  unita  fortlor.  My  Lord 
semethe  to  be  of  a  good  nature,  and  I  know  that  you  were  never 
delited  with  separation  ;  and  therefore,  in  my  pore  opinion,  you 
shal  do  well  to  conferr  with  hym  and  to  be  reconciled.  I  know 
that  he  for  hys  parte  will  willinglie  embrace  yt,  and  yt  can  not 
be  but  a  great  comforth  to  you ;  besides,  that  both  God  and  her 
Majestic  shal  by  that  meanes  be  better  served.  This  I  write  of 
my  self  unto  you,  bycause  I  wold  lett  you  understand  in  what 
state  things  are.  As  for  hearing  of  matters  your  self  with  others 
in  commission  with  you,  I  shal  not  nede  to  write  of;  I  am  suer 
you  doe  so,  and  thingk  yt  to  be  necessarie  for  you  so  to  doe. 
Her  Majestic  hath  bestowed  the  denerie  of  Powle's  upon  D'. 
Overall,  reader  of  the  divinitie  lecter  in  Ohambridge  and  M'.  of 
Kateren-hall ;  and  the  denerie  of  Chester  upon  D'".  Barloe. 
The  bishopprick  of  Hereford  hangeth  as  yet  in  susj^ence  be- 
twixt the  Bishop  of  Chester  and  D"".  Bennet,  Dene  of  Windsor. 
Vale  in  Christo  !  Frome  Lamb,  the  17  of  May,  1602. 
Your  Grace's  loving  frend  and  brother, 

Jo.  Oantuar. 

To  the  most  Reverend  in  Christ,  my  verie  good  Lord  and 
brother,  the  Archbishop  of  Yorke. 

(Wafer  seah     Canterbury  impaling  Whitgift,  with  the  initials  I.  C.  above 
the  shield.     The  whole  letter  in  the  Archbishop's  own  hand.) 


M  2 


164;  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  cm. 

MY  lord's  grace  hys  apologie  to  the  lords  concern- 
ing   PRECEDENCIE. 

Maie  30,  1602.     (754.) 

Right  Honorable,  It  may  please  you  to  understand  that  the 
xx"'  of  this  moneth  I  received  a  letter  from  your  Honors  of  the 
ix*''  of  the  same,  which  I  did  reade  with  griefe,  that  you  should 
conceive  so  hard  an  opinion  of  me  as  to  censure  me  that  I  haA'^e 
neglected  your  Honors'  directions  in  my  certificate  concerning 
place  of  the  Vice-President  at  the  Assizes,  &c. ;  and  it  would 
have  greeved  me  more,  but  that  I  have  the  testimony  of  a  good 
conscience.  I  beseach  yow  therefore  to  heare  my  answ^ere  with 
favorable  construction. 

Ohjectio  1. — First,  it  is  misliked  that  I  did  certifie  alone  apart, 
without  Sir  Thomas  Fairfax,  Sir  Edward  Stanhope,  and  M'. 
Atturney  of  the  Wards ;  which  three,  or  two  of  them,  should 
have  joined  with  me. 

Bespons.  a. — I  answere,  ffirst.,  that  (under  reformation)  there 
is  no  such  direction  in  your  letters  that  I  should  joyne  them  in 
my  certificate.  I  appeall  to  your  Honors  better  informed,  and 
referr  my  self  to  your  later  letter,  wherein  brefely  and  most 
truely  is  recited  the  effect  and  meaning  of  the  former  letter,  viz., 
that  I  should  use  the  assistance  and  advise  of  Sir  Thomas  Fair- 
fax, Sir  Edward  Stanhope,  and  M'.  Atturney  of  the  Wardes,  or 
any  two  of  them,  and  all  convenient  means,  to  informe  my  self 
what  place  the  Vice-President  had  by  the  space  of  25  or  SO 
yeres,  &c.,  and  to  advertise  your  Honors ;  and,  if  my  health  did 
not  serve  me,  then  to  put  it  over  to  those  three  gentlemen  or  two 
of  them,  and  they  to  advertise  yow,  &c.  Here  is,  that  I  should 
use  their  advise  and  assistance  to  discover  the  trueth  (as  in 
deede  I  did),  but  not  to  joine  in  certificate  with  them. 

h.  Secondly/. — If  I  had  bene  required  so  to  doe,  yet  could  I 
not  have  any  two  of  them  to  joine  with  me  in  certificate  :  for, 
before  the  Judges  came  to  Yorke,  M'.  Atturney  departed,  and 
not  yet  retourned ;  Sir  Thomas  Fairfax  also  went  away  before  I 
could  certifie ;  and  Sir  Edward  (who  hathe  taken  great  paines  in 
this  matter)    was  in  the  contrie,    I   did   not  know   where,  nor 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  165 

when  he  would  retounie  ;  and  therefore  sent  the  certificate. 
Within  two  or  three  daies  after,  Sir  Edward  came  and  shewed 
me  a  note  out  of  the  recordes  of  the  Oounsell,  shewing  who  was 
Vice-President  everie  sitting  many  yeres,  but  what  was  fund 
in  the  records  of  the  Assises  neither  he  nor  any  of  the  Ooun- 
sell did  informe  me  ;  albeit  Sir  Edward  seemed  sorie  that  my 
certificate  was  sent  before  he  did  retourne.  Yet,  before  their 
departure,  I  had  the  assistance  here  of  Sir  Edward  and  M'.  At- 
turney,  and  their  advise  that  I  should  write  to  my  Lord  Darcy  to 
know  M^hat  place  to  take,  and  to  learne  of  auncient  men  the 
usage,  &c. ;  which  I  did  accordingly. 

Ohjectio  2. — But  the  other  three  gentlemen  have  made  certifi- 
cate differing  from  myne,  &c. 

Respon. — I  answere,  that,  after  the  letter  of  the  5"'  of  March 
directed  to  me,  there  came  an  other  letter  of  the  21  of  the  same 
from  your  Lordship  to  me  and  the  rest  of  the  Oounsell  at  Yorke, 
whereby  authoritie  was  geven  to  search  the  recordes  of  the  As- 
sises, before  denyed  ;  and,  bicause  my  health  did  not  well  serve 
me,  I  sent  to  my  Lord  of  Limerike  M"^.  Hales  and  M^  Feme, 
who  then  onely  were  at  Yorke,  praying  them  to  send  for  the 
Clarke  of  the  Assises  to  search  the  records  of  that  court,  which 
I  understand  was  done  verie  diligently.  And,  after  the  Olarke 
had  retourned  his  search  to  the  Oounsell,  subscribed  with  his 
hand,  my  Lord  of  Limerike  and  others  then  at  Yorke  did  sub- 
scribe their  names,  and  sent  it  up  ;  neither  Sir  Thomas  Fairfax 
nor  JVP.  Atturney  being  then  at  Yorke.  But  what  they  found, 
and  what  they  certified,  they  did  not  make  me  privie  neither 
before  their  certificate  nor  after  ;  yet  since  (I  hear)  they  found 
in  the  records  that  the  late  Lord  Ewre  toke  place  of  them  once 
or  twice,  and  the  same  confirmed  by  some  witnesses,  which  is 
said  to  differ  much  from  my  certificate.  But  (under  reformation) 
albeit  there  is  contradiction  betwene  those  whom  I  did  examine 
by  vertue  of  the  first  letter,  and  those  that  were  examined  by 
the  Oounsell  at  Yorke  by  the  later,  yet  there  is  no  contradiction 
betwene  the  certificates,  but  a  difference  onely  secundum  magis 
et  minus,  for  bothe  may  be  true,  &c. 

Ohjectio  3. — But,  immediately  upon  receipt  of  your  Lordships' 
letter,  I  writt  a  private  letter  to  Sir  Edward  and  M".  Atturney, 
that  my  opinion  was  that  Barons  Vice-Presidents  should  take 
place,  &c. 


166  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

Bespon. — Aucl  I  answere,  that  my  opinion  was  then,  and  yet 
is,  that  they  should  have  place,  if  the  gaole-deliverie  be  kept  by 
the  commission  dormant  to  the  Lord  President  and  Counsell. 
AVhich  is  not  contrarie  to  my  certificate,  wherein  by  your  direc- 
tion I  was  required  to  certifie  what  I  could  learne  of  the  usage, 
not  what  I  thought  convenient,  &c. 

Object.  4. — But  I  my  self  toke  the  place,  &c. 

Bespon. — I  answere,  that,  as  I  was  not  President,  so  was  I 
not  Vice-President,  but  appointed  by  hir  Majestie''s  commission 
under  the  great  seall  to  supply  the  place,  which  the  worthie  late 
Lord  Treasorer  advertised  me  was  like  to  continue  untill  hir 
Highness  should  resolve  of  a  worthie  man  to  succead  the  good 
Erie  of  Huntingdon.  I  did  lye  at  the  mannor,  and  kept  the 
diett  for  the  Counsell,  and  the  Judges  came  allwaies  to  me  at 
their  coming  to  Yorke,  as  they  did  to  former  Lords  Presidents, 
and  now  doe  to  my  Lord  now  President,  and  I  did  sitt  betwene 
them  on  the  bench,  onely  when  the  commissions  were  in  reading 
and  the  chardge  in  geveing.  But  (under  reformation)  I  take  it, 
this  maketh  nothinge  for  everie  Vice-President :  for,  the  Lord 
President  may  appoint  any  of  the  Counsell  to  be  Vice-President, 
and  Doctor  Rokebie,  one  of  the  Prebendaries  of  Yorke,  was  Vice- 
President ;  and  yet  it  had  not  bene  convenient  that  he  should 
have  taken  place  of  the  Judges,  who  are  knowne  to  be  wise  and 
great  lawyers,  and  come  with  great  authoritie  for  the  great 
good  of  the  subject,  and  therefore  deserve  all  honor  that  may  be 
geven  them  without  injurie  to  higher  authoritie. 

Object.  5. — But  I  gave  to  much  credit  to  the  Lord  Darcie's 
letter,  who,  about  two  yeres  before,  had  written  to  the  con- 
trary, &c. 

Besi^on. — I  answere,  that  what  he  writt  before  I  can  not  tell ; 
but  since,  he  being  desired  by  my  Lord  of  Limerick  and  M"". 
Feme  to  certifie  what  place  he  toke,  signified  by  his  letter  to 
them  more  plainly  then  he  did  to  me,  viz.,  that  he  gave  place  to 
them,  bothe  in  the  church  and  on  the  bench. 

Object.  6. — That  I  liave  gev€n  the  Lord  President  cause  of 
exception  against  me,  and  therefore  it  pleaseth  your  Honors  to 
use  me  no  more  in  this  jiartieular. 

Bespon. — I  answere,  that  I  geve  your  Honors  humble  and 
heartie  thanks,  and  wish  I  had  not  bene  used  at  all.  But  (I 
I)rotest  before  God)  I  never  meant  to  crosse  my  Lord  President, 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  167 

whom  I  allwaies  loved,  and  doe  honor  with  all  my  hart,  not 
onely  for  his  place  which  he  houldeth  under  hir  Majestic,  but 
also  for  the  deserved  great  good  will  I  did  ever  bear  to  my  verie 
good  Lord  his  noble  father,  as  worthie  a  counsellor  as  ever  Eng- 
land bredd.  Thus,  beseaching  God  to  blesse  this  kingdome  with 
hir  Majestie's  long  and  prosperous  reigne,  and  all  your  Honors 
with  his  manifold  graces,  long  to  serve  so  gratious  a  sovereigne, 
to  the  great  good  of  this  Church  and  common  wealth,  I  humbly 
take  leave.  From  Bishopthorp,  the  xxx*^  of  Male,  1602. 
Your  Honors'  in  Christe  to  be  commaunded, 

Matth,   Ebor, 


LETTER  CIV. 

A    COPYE    OF    MY    LORD    ARCHBISHOP's    LETTER    UNTO    THE    LORD 

PRESIDENT. 

30  Aug.  1602.     (767.) 

Right  Honorable,  I  thanke  your  Lordship  hartely  for  the 
books  and  newes  you  sent  me  by  my  Chancellor.  ^^  The  booke  I 
have  redd,  and  mislike  that  it  should  come  to  the  hands  either  of 
the  paj)ists  (whom  it  will  confirme  in  their  error),  or  of  the  sim- 
ple protestants,  whom  I  fear  it  will  weaken  in  their  faith,  &c. ; 
fFor,  albeit  these  traitors  vomit  their  poison  one  against  an  other, 
yet  they  joine  together  in  casting  out  poison  against  religion  and 
the  State.  As  for  hir  Majestie's  entertainment  at  my  Lord 
Keeper"'s^''  house,  I  am  glad  to  lieare  it  was  to  hir  good  likinge  and 
best  contentment ;  and  (in  deede)  it  coidd  not  be  otherwise,  ffor, 
besides  the  loyall  and  chearefull  harts  of  the  master  of  the  house 
and  his  good  ladie  (well  knowne  to  hir  Highnes  before,  and  then 
speciallie  shewed),  two  of  the  first  creatures  that  ever  God  made, 
and  so  now  two  of  th'  ouldest,  Time  and  Place,  forgetting  their 
yeres,  5564,  did  (as  it  were)  caste  awaie  their  crutches  and  frame 
themselves  to  the  present  worlde  to  speake  placentia,  concurring, 
consenting,  and  conspiring  to  cheare  and  solace  hir  Highnes,  by 
whose  wise  and  happie  government  bothe  time  and  place  them- 

2^  William  Palmer  ;  but  v.  Le  Neve's  Fasti  Ecclesise  AnglicaiiEe,  p.  319. 
3«  Sir  Thos.  Egerton. 


168  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

selves  have  bene  much  graced.  "^^  These  two  are  verie  nere  of 
kinne  to  two  oukle  predicaments  as  ould  as  them  selves,  quando 
et  uU,  which  I  praie  God  may  allwaies  and  everie  where  likewise 
concurr  to  serve  her  Majestic  ;  that,  whensoever  and  wheresoever 
shee  taketh  anie  thinge  in  hand,  God's  holie  hande  and  powerfull 
spirit  may  direct  it  to  his  glorie,  and  hir  happines  and  comforte, 
bothe  in  this  world  and  in  the  world  to  come.  Thus,  beseaching 
God  to  blesse  your  Lordship,  my  good  Ladie,  and  all  youres 
with  his  manifould  graces,  I  bid  you  moste  hartelie  farewell. 
From  Bishopthorpe,  the  xxx  of  August,  1602. 

Your  Lordship's  in  Christe  moste  assuredly, 

Matth.   Ebor. 

The  copie  of   a  letter  from  the  Lord  Archbishop  of   York's  Grace  to  my 
Lord  President,^^  &e. 


LETTER  CV. 


THE    KINGE  S    MAJESTIE    TO    THE    ARCHBISHOP    OF    YORK. 
10  April,  1603. 

James  R. 

Right  trusty  and  wellbeloved,  wee  greete  yow  hartely  well. 
Wee  have  receaved  your  letter,  wheareby  wee  cleerely  perceave 
your  most  loving  affection  towardes  us,  as  by  our  trusty  servant 
the  Lord  of  Roxbrough  wee  have  oftentymes  heretofore  under- 
stood ;  whearein  as  wee  doubt  not  of  your  contynuance,  so  w^ee 
have  thought  good  hereby  to  give  yow  assurance  (til  occasion 
may  serve  that  Avee  may  signify  the  same  unto  yoAv  by  our  owne 
moutlie)  that  wee  shall  thankfully  reserve  the  same  in  our  me- 
mory, to  be  rewarded  as  it  bathe  most  worthylie  deserved  ;  and 
that  wee  shall  pretermitte  no  occasion  to  give  yow  proofe  what 
greate  respect  wee  have  had,  and  still  have,  to  all  such  who,  by 
carefull  disposition  to  the  loyall  obedience  of  our  deare  syster  the 
late  Queene,  give  us  assurance  of  the  lyke  contynuance  towards 
us,  whom  God,  according  to  our  undoubted  right  and  the  loving 

^'  See  an  account  of  the  pageant  liere  alluded  to  in  the  sequel. 
38  Edmund  Sheffield,  third  Baron  Sheffield. 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  169 

affection  of  our  good  subjects,  hathe  thus  happily  established  in 
her  throne.  And  thus,  till  meeting,  wee  bid  yow  hartely  fare- 
well. From  our  towne  of  Newcastle-upon-Tyne,  the  tenth  of 
Aprile,  in  the  first  yeare  of  our  reigne,  1603. 

To  our  right  trusty  and  wellbelovcd,  th'  Archbishop  of  Yorkc. 
(The  signature  is  in  the  King's  own  hand.) 


LETTER  OVI. 


ARCHBISHOP    HUTTON    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

13  JuLii,  1603.     (782.) 

Salutem  in  Sal.  &c.  !  I  like  not  in  any  case  that  yow  should 
go  to  London,  the  sicknes  is  so  dispersed.  Since  your  boyes 
coming  hither,  I  perceaive  by  a  letter  from  D'.  Benet  that  the 
coronation  is  like  to  hould  as  was  appointed,  but  with  lesse  so- 
lemnitie  then  was  expected.  I  thinke  verie  fewe  will  go.  I  vvill 
write  to  D'.  Benet  to  excuse  yow.  The  Lord  blesse  yow  and 
youres  with  his  manifould  graces.      At  Bishopthorp,  the  xiij"'  of 

Julie,  1603. 

Your  loving  father, 

Matth.  Ebok. 

(The  signature  only  in  the  Archbishop's  hand.) 


No.  cvn. 

MY    LORD    GRACE    HIS    DISPENSATION    FROM    THE    PARLIAMENT. 

21  Feb.  1603-4.     (759.) 

James  R.  By  the  Kinge. 

Most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  our  right  trusty  and  wellbeloved, 
wee  greete  you  well.  Wheras  for  divers  good  cousideracions 
wee  have  sommoned  our  high  Corte  of  Parliament  to  be  holden 
at  our  city  of  Westminster  the  nintenth  day  of  March  in  this 


170  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

first  yeere  of  our  raigne,  and  for  that  purj^ose  have  directed  unto 
you,  among  others,  our  writ  of  sommonee  :  forasmuch  as  wee  con- 
sider how  daingerous  it  would  be  for  your  helth,  in  respecte  of 
your  greate  age  and  indisposition  of  body,  to  venture  the  taking 
uppon  you  of  so  long  a  journey,  wee  are  jjleased,  and  heerby  wee 
licence  yow  to  stay  your  comming  up  to  our  said  Parliament,  and 
to  be  absent  from  the  same,  our  said  writt  or  any  thing  therin 
contained  to  the  contrary  notwithstandinge  ;  willing  yow  never- 
thelesse  to  appoint  your  proxie  to  such  parsonnage  of  quality  as 
may  for  yow  in  your  name  give  his  voice  and  consent  to  such 
matters  as  shalbe  in  our  said  Parliament  treated  and  concluded. 
And  these  our  lettres  shalbe  your  sufficient  warrant  and  dis- 
charge in  this  behalfe.  Given  under  our  signet,  at  our  palace 
of  Westminster,  the  xxj*"^  of  February,  1603,  in  the  first  yeere 
of  our  raigne  of  England,  France,  and  Ireland,  and  of  Scotland 
the  seven  and  thirtith. 

WiNDEBANK. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  our  right  trusty  and 
vvelbeloved,  tlic  Archbisshop  of  York. 

(Privy  seal  in  wafer.) 


LETTER  CVIII. 

MY    LORDE's    grace    [tO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON,    HIS    SON.] 
18  May,  1604.     (861,  the  44*  bundell.) 

Salutem,  Sic.  !  I  have  kept  your  sonne  Math,  here  these  4  or  5 
daies,  fearing  the  dainger  of  the  sicknes,  &c.  And  now,  being 
informed  that  it  spreadeth  abrode  and  increaseth  in  Yorke,  I 
hould  it  best  that  you  take  him  to  you,  for  that  I  doubt  he  can 
not  so  well  stay  here  without  dainger  or  great  fear  so  nere  th' 
infected  places  and  among  so  manie  in  this  great  familie.  And 
so,  praying  God  to  blesse  you  and  all  youres  with  his  manifould 
graces,  with  hartie  commendations  to  my  good  daughter,  I  end. 
Bishopthorp,  this  xviij"'  of  Maie,  1604. 

Youre  loving  father, 

Matth.  Ebor. 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  171 

You  shall  do  well  either  to  fetch  him  or  send  for  him,  and 
also  a  toward  scholar,  a  pretie  boy,  M'.  Rawsou's  kinsman,  that 
waiteth  on  him.  You  need  send  the  fewer,  because  I  hear  that 
M'.  Crawthorne  and  Th.  Stirkai  stay  till  he  comes,  and  all  my 
horses  are  at  grasse. 

To  my  vcrie  loveing-  sonne,   Timothie  Hutton,   at  Marske, 
with  speecle. 

(Signature  only  in  tlie  Arclibiyhop'y  hand.) 


LETTER  OIX, 


A  COPPY  OF  THE  KING's    LETTER    TO    THE    LORD    ARCHBISHOP   OF 
YORKE    AND    THE    LORD    PRESIDENT. 

Feb.  19,  1604-5.     (760.) 
James  R. 

MosTE  Reverend  Father  in  God,  our  right  trustie  and  right 
welbeloved,  and  right  trusty  and  welbeloved,  we  greete  you  well. 
Although  our  owne  resolucion  in  matter  of  religion  be  so  well 
knowne  to  all  that  have  had  any  knowledge  of  us  (since  our 
first  infancie)  as  it  cannot  be  made  clearer  by  any  protestations 
then  it  hathe  bene  by  our  actions  in  the  whole  course  of  our  life 
and  although  since  our  entrie  into  this  kingdome  the  proofes  of 
our  constancy  therein  have  bene  so  notorious  as  none  coulde 
chose  but  see  them  that  were  not  willing  to  be  blinde ;  it  being 
impossible  for  us  to  geve  any  greater  evidence  of  our  care  to  pre- 
serve the  religion  which  we  founde  established,  and  under  which 
the  realme  had  flourished  so  many  yeres  before  our  commeing, 
[a.]  then  first  by  our  proclamacion  to  bannish  all  manner  of 
priests  (the  cheefe  corruptors  of  our  subjects)  out  of  our  king- 
dome,  under  paine  of  the  severest  lawes  provided  against  them 
in  former  time  ;  [b.]  secondlie,  by  our  ordinary  discourse  in 
all  places  to  publish  our  absolute  condemnacions  of  the  supersti- 
tions mainteined  in  the  Church  of  Roome  ;  [c]  thirdly,  in  the 
very  first  session  of  our  parliament  to  revive  those  lawes  which 
were  made  in  the  late  Queene's  time  bothe  against  priests  and 
lay-men  of  that  profession,  yea,  in  some  points  to  make  them 
more  plaine  for  prevention  of  the  corruption  of  youth,  and  the 


172  CORRESrONDENCE,    ETC. 

multiplying  of  priestes  by  the  transportation  of  children  daily 
into  forraine  parts :  yet  hathe  there  not  wanted  (notwithstanding 
this  our  care  and  providence)  divers  tounges  of  slander,  which 
have  divulged  scandalous  rumors  of  our  proceadinges  past,  and  of 
our  purposes  in  future;  and  (as  we  hear  also)  some  of  our  subjects 
infected  with  those  superstitious  humors  have  bene  more  quick 
in  conceiveing  hopes,  and  audacious  in  uttering  them,  then  ever 
they  had  ground  from  us  to  doe,  except  it  were  out  of  a  vaine 
conceipt  that  a  new  succession  to  the  crowne  should  worke  a 
generall  innovation  of  all  pollices  both  in  the  church  and  in  the 
state.  In  which  consideracion,  although  the  solide  course  before 
mentioned  be  sufficient  to  remove  those  fond  imaginations  of 
theires ;  yet,  forasmuch  as  we  have  bene  informed  from  many 
parts  that  many  of  our  subjects  of  the  better  sorts  have  also 
entertained  those  vaine  jelousies,  in  such  sorte  as  they  have  bene 
lesse  earnest  in  the  prosecution  of  our  lawes  then  became  them, 
we  resolved,  for  our  discharge  to  God  and  towards  all  men,  [d.] 
first  to  make  a  publike  declaration  to  our  whole  Counsell  in  the 
presence  of  our  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  with  divers  other 
Bishops,  how  much  wee  tooke  it  to  hart  that  all  thinges  should 
be  duelie  performed  which  might  tend  to  the  preservation  of  that 
true  religion  Avherein  we  have  ever  lived  and  resolve  to  die.  [g] 
We  did  likewise  cause  the  Recordor  of  London  to  be  sent  for  to 
yeald  us  an  accompt  what  had  bene  done,  either  by  vertue  of  our 
comaundement  concerning  the  apprehension  of  priests  and  such  as 
use  to  repayre  either  publicklie  or  privatelie  to  hear  masse,  or  by 
such  particular  directions  as  our  Counsell  had  geven  him  to  the 
said  end.  From  whom  receiving  lesse  satisfaction  then  we  ex- 
pected, especially  considering  the  strainge  reports  delivered  unto 
us  of  those  great  scandalls  which  our  good  subjects  received  by 
such  insolent  abuses,  we  commaunded  him  to  impart  to  the 
Maior  and  other  our  officers  how  much  we  misliked  that  any 
couldnes  should  be  used  ;  commaunding  them  upon  their  dutie  and 
allegeance  not  onelie  to  be  carefull  to  trie  out  and  apprehend  all 
persons  whatsoever  so  ofl^ending  by  their  owne  authorities,  but 
also  to  be  diligent  upon  all  occasions  to  informe  our  Privie  Coun- 
sell of  such  enormities,  to  the  intent  that,  whensoever  there  shalbe 
cause  to  make  use  of  further  authority  then  their  owne  ordinary 
power,  their  proceadings  may  be  strengthened  with  that  extra- 
ordinary authority  which  we  doe  leave  with  them  at  all  times  for 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  l73 

matters  of  so  gveate  coiisoquence  ;  ^vlleve^n  we  cannot  but  deliver 
for  truetli  upon  our  honor  and  conscience,  that  never  any  one  of 
them  did  ever  so  much  as  open  the  least  disposicion  to  allowe, 
much  lesse  any  presumption  to  perswade,  any  toleracion  of  such 
impieties,  but  in  all  occasions  and  at  all  times  have  carefully  and 
zealouslie  declared  their  mindes  to  the  contrary.  [/.]  After  that, 
we  caused  our  Chancellor,  seconded  by  our  whole  Counsell,  sitting- 
in  the  open  Court  of  Starchamber,  to  publish  our  great  mislike  of 
any  such  connyvence  before  a  multitude  of  the  principall  gentle- 
men of  our  realme,  (men  ready  to  leave  the  citty  and  to  disperse 
themselves  into  severall  countyes,)  to  the  intent  that  they  might 
there  make  knowne  what  they  had  heard  of  our  royall  pleasure. 
[g.]  We  have  also  proceaded  thus  much  further,  to  convent 
before  us  all  or  the  moste  part  of  the  Judges  of  this  land,  to 
whom  even  now,  before  their  going  to  their  circuits,  we  have 
likewise  made  knowne  our  constant  resolucion  to  have  all  our 
lawes  and  ordinances  (in  matter  of  religion)  exequuted  accord- 
ing to  their  true  meaneing,  commaunding  them  bothe  in  their 
speaches  at  their  benches  and  in  their  proceadinges  to  make  the 
same  manifest  to  all  our  people ;  so  as  from  henceforth,  if  any 
such  scandalous  bruits  shalbe  dispersed  of  any  such  toleracion,  we 
doubt  not  but  yow,  that  are  our  principall  ministers  there,  will 
both  discharge  us  of  any  guilt  thereof  in  your  owne  knowledges, 
and  will  so  applie  your  selves  by  all  good  meanes  to  discharge  the 
trust  which  we  have  reposed  in  you,  as  we  may  have  cause  to 
conceive  that  you  make  judgement  of  our  intentions  according 
to  the  lawes  which  we  have  made  and  the  observation  of  our 
owne  actions,  and  not  according  to  the  light  oppinions  and  re- 
ports which  are  raalitiouslie  delivered  by  every  vaine  or  idle  dis- 
course of  princes'  actions  and  counsells.  [1.]  All  which  consider- 
ed, wee  doe  hereby  declare,  that  we  expect  at  your  handes  that 
you  shall  by  all  meanes  convenient,  without  any  respect  to  per- 
sons, cause  diligent  search  to  be  made  for  all  persons  so  offending, 
and  carefully  to  committ  them  to  prison,  to  the  intent  that  they 
may  be  forthecomeing  to  receive  their  triall  by  our  Judges  of 
Assize,  whom  we  have  called  before  us  as  aforesaid,  and  made 
knowne  how  straight  an  accompt  we  looke  for  at  their  handes. 
Haveing  now  acquainted  you  with  our  proceadinges  towards  men 
of  this  pernitious  humor,  it  remaineth  likewise  for  us  to  acquaint 
you  what  causes  we  have  to  be  carefull  to  correct  [2.]  an  other 


174  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

sort  of  our  peojjle,  not  a  little  troublesome  to  the  whole  state  by 
their  disobedience  in  the  lawfull  ceremonies  and  orderlie  govern- 
ment of  the  Church,  whom  (if  they  continue  in  their  wilfullnes 
and  disobedience)  we  shall  have  cause  to  thinke  it  very  necessary 
to  be  corrected :  ffor  as  we  have  reason  to  conceive  that  the 
papists  themselves  have,  to  their  owne  glory,  beene  content  to 
vaunt  of  their  nombers  ;  so  it  is  not  improbable,  by  some  late 
discoveries  which  we  have  made  of  some  men*'s  behaviors,  but 
that  some  of  them  have  bene  content  to  disperse  false  rumors 
of  our  connyvence  at  papists,  and  rather  to  drawe  and  fix  our 
eies  upon  that  partie  and  to  divert  our  lookes  from  them  selves, 
while  they  were  plotting  and  contriveing  all  thinges  that  could 
be  imagined  likelie  to  deprive  the  state  of  the  Church  as  it  is 
established  in  our  kingdome,  and  to  bring  in  a  forme  of  pres- 
byterie,  to  the  utter  dissollucion  of  all  monarchies.  For,  when 
we  had  examined  to  the  quicke  before  our  Counsell  the  sugges- 
tions of  that  great  increase  which  is  so  much  divulged,  we  not 
onelie  founde  it  in  many  thinges  merelie  grounded  upon  speach 
and  rumor,  but  have  discovered,  on  the  other  side,  a  practice 
of  combination  in  many  to  procure  multiplicity  of  handes  to 
deliver  petitions  in  the  behalf  of  those  obstinate  and  obdurate 
ministers  whom  no  admonition  or  animadversion  could  reduce 
to  other  conformity  then  standeth  merelie  with  the  rules  of  their 
owne  particuler  fancies.  In  which  course  so  taken  by  divers  of 
our  good  and  loving  subjects,  rather  blinded  herein  with  some  in- 
discreat  zeall  then  other  wise  caryed  by  any  disloyall  intentions, 
because  we  have  made  them  knowe,  by  the  uniforme  consent  of 
all  our  Judges,  what  perill  they  incurr  that  shall  under  any 
such  pretext  procure  a  combination  of  handes  or  association  of 
harts  to  presume  to  intercead  for  persons  that  breede  so  great 
scandall  to  our  Church,  we  are  to  give  you  like  charge  to  be  no 
lesse  vigilant  in  suppressing  any  such  proceadinges  within  your 
jurisdictions,  and  in  reduceing  them  to  conformity  in  those  thinges 
wherein  they  have  moved  malitious  contentions  againste  the 
Bishops  and  ecclesiasticall  pollicy  here  by  lawe  established.  And 
for  the  better  satisfaction  of  you  the  Archbishop,  and  of  the 
Bishops  of  your  province,  we  have  thought  good  to  signifie  to  you, 
that,  whereas  many  of  the  ministers  of  that  sorte,  haveing  bene 
of  late  deprived  by  their  Bishops  for  their  disobedience  as  persons 
schismaticke,  have  geven  out  that  the  ecclesiasticall  proceadinges 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  175 

against  them  were  not  warrantable  by  lawe,  and  the  Bishops 
subject  to  clainger  for  their  doeings,  and  some  of  them,  upon 
a  sentence  latelie  geven  by  the  Bishop  of  Exceter,  within  two 
daies  after  came  with  their  counsell  to  our  bench  before  our 
Judges  then  sittinge,  and  demaunded  a  prohibition  ;  that  motion 
of  theirs  hath  geven  occasion  to  a  consultacion  amonge  the  whole 
Judges  of  our  realme,  who  with  one  consent  have  likewise  deli- 
vered their  judgement,  that  no  prohibition  doeth  lye  in  that  case 
against  the  Judges  ecclesiasticall,  that  the  Bishop's  proceading  to  ' 
deprivation  for  not  conforming  to  the  Booke  of  Common  Prayer 
and  ceremonies  of  the  Church  is  warranted  by  lawe,  and  they 
neither  will  nor  are  to  releve  any  man  seeking  to  them  in  such 
case,  but  suffer  the  ecclesiasticall  authoritie  to  have  his  full  exe- 
quution.  Which  evasion  being  now  taken  from  the  ministers 
disobedient,  we  doubt  not  will  reduce  a  great  many  of  them  to 
temper,  and  we  thought  it  convenient  to  make  the  same  knowne 
unto  you  for  your  better  assurance  in  your  proceadinges  ;  so  as 
heareafter,  if  you  shall  use  such  diligence  and  constancie  as  we 
desire  in  your  proceadinges  against  the  disobedient  both  of  the 
one  sorte  and  of  the  other,  we  hope  that  in  short  time  all  our  sub- 
jects shalbe  reduced  to  one  uniformity  in  matter  of  religion, 
which  shalbe  to  the  universall  quiet  of  our  people,  and  to  our 
assurance  of  their  loyalty  towards  us.  Geven  under  our  signet, 
at  our  pallace  of  Westminster,  the  xix*^  day  of  February,  1 604, 
in  the  second  yere  of  our  reigne  of  Great  Bretaine,  France,  and 
Ireland. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  our  right  trustie  and 
right  welbeloved,  the  Lord  Archbishop  of  Yorke,  and  to 
our  right  trusty  and  welbeloved  the  Lord  Sheefeeld,  Pre- 
sident of  our  Counsell  established  in  the  north  partes. 

The  copie  of  a  letter  from  the  Kinge's  most  excellent  Majestic  to  the  Lord 
Archbishop  of  Yorke  and  Lord  President. 

Copia  vera.     Ex.  per  J.  Hall,  Secretarium. 


176  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  ex. 

JOHN    WIRDNAM    TO    THE    ARCHBISHOP    OF    YORK. 

Revcrcndissimo  in  Christo  patri  ac  Domino  D.  Matthseo 

Eboracensi  archiepiscopo  dignissimo,  Anglise  pri- 

mati  et  metropolitano,  literamm 

patrono  maximo. 

Ex  universis  illis  ornamentis,  Reverendissime  pater,  quibus 
tua  amplitiiclo  magis  magisque  indies  efflorescit,  nullum  liabeo 
illustrius,  quam  quod  nobilitati  tu?e  doctrinam,  doctrinse  pieta- 
tein  comitem  adjungis :  multi  enim  honoribus  aucti,  virtutem 
parvi  faciunt ;  tu,  tamen,  quamvis  in  altissima  dignitatis  sede 
divino  numine  sis  collocatus,  nos  in  hac  humili  vitse  conditione 
positos  respicis,  jacentes  erigis,  et  virtutem  ca;teris  rebus  omnibus 
anteponis.  Qua  (ut  inquit  Isocrates)  ovUv  xTijjaa  crsix-voTspov  otJSs 
^s^a'iOTspov  ecrrl,  matra  yap  t^j  "^^X^^  SoVjj  crov«7ro5v>jcrxe<  to  (tmixoiti 
a't  8=  TMV  (TTTOudaiMV  ocpsrai  Trapa/Aevoucrj  xa»  TeXsurrjcracrj  ho^av  Ttapa- 
a-xsva^ova-i,  IHud  quoque  maximum  est  pietatis  tuse  indicium, 
quod  sicut  literse  nobilitati  tuse  ornamento  sunt,  ita  tuam  nobili- 
tatem  Uteris  magno  preesidio  esse  velis.  Nam  quod  scholam 
tuam  Wartonieusem  ad  communem  rem  literariam,  tam  magno 
stipendio  institutara  erexisti,  quod  tum  mihi  tum  academicis  per- 
multis,  gmicorum  ope  et  auxilio  destitutis,  in  hac  tanta  rerum 
penuria  unico  adjumento  esse  voluisti,  plane  ostendis  te  talem 
esse,  ut  tuas  laudes  obscuratura  nulla  unquam  sit  oblivio.  Cum 
igitur  tot  tantaque  in  me  beneficia  contuleris,  ut  pudor  vetet 
plura  petere,  tuam  in  me  liberalitatem  perpetuo  prseconio  reci- 
tabo,  Deumque  assiduis  precibus  pro  gratia?  suse  salute  obsecrabo. 
Pater  ccelestis  amplitudinem  tuam  nobis  diutissime  conservet 
incolumem. 

Tuse  amplitudini  devinctissimus, 

Johannes   Wirdnam. 

To  the  most  Reverend  Father  in  God,  the  Lord  Archbishop 
of  Yorke  his  Grace,  my  good  Lord  and  most  gratious 
patron,  d.  tliese  at  Bisliojtthorp,  from  Cambrige. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  177 

LETTER  CXI. 

JOHN    WIRDNAM    TO    THE    ARCHBISHOP    OF    YORK. 

Reverendissimo  in  Christo  Patri  ac  Domino,  Domino 

Matthseo  Eboracensi  archiepiscopo 

dignissimo,  literaium  patrono 

singulai'i. 

Quod  eximise  tuse  in  me  benignitati  (Reverendissime  Pater) 
ingeiiii  profectusque  mei  indicia  parum  cumulate  respondent,  ne 
mese  naturae,  quaeso,  aut  negligentise,  potius  quam  beneficiorum 
tuorum  amplitudini  tribuendum  putes.  Nam  ut  ingentem  ilium 
bonitatis  tuse  oceanum,  qui  in  universam  rempublicam  et  reli- 
gionem  copiosissime  inundavit  (ne  fluctibus  ejus  obruar)  omittam, 
meipsum  ab  amicis  ejectum  recipisti,  nudum  operuisti,  rudem 
instituisti,  idque  non  rustica  Musa,  sed  academica,  ad  baccha' 
leaureatus  dignitatem  extulisti,  et  ne  quid  tant^e  pietati  deesset 
ipse  mihi  optionem  dedisti  gratiee  tuse  voce  Uteris  auctoritate  ad 
societatem  ambiendam  libere  perfruendi.  Quibus  charitatis  ope- 
ribus  opponant  licet  operosi  vel  quod  idem  sonat  vovspoi  papistee 
totum  suum  supererogationis,  (hoc  est  ut  ego  interpreter  superbse 
arrogationis,)  acervum  non  alia  certe  quam  ;i|^«Aj£e«  XP^'^^^°^S  assi- 
mulabunt.  Is  etiam  qui  gratias  tuse  in  eadem  sede  successit,  iisdem 
pietatis  vestigiis  insistere  videtur  episcopus  Dunelmensis,  nam  pro 
unis  mihi  literis  viginti  sollidos  misit,  cum  non  obscura  benevolen- 
tife  suae  significatione.  Unica  tamen  societatis  adipiscendse  spes 
exigna  manet,  et  valde  remota,  multaj  enim  inveteratse  sunt  quse- 
relse  totam  totius  orbis  rempublicam  ohgarchicam  evasisse,  in  quo 
statu  electiones  ttAoutjvSiv  ssepius  fiunt  quam  apio-T»vSiv.  Apud  nos, 
tres  adhuc  superius  factae  electioni  supersunt  in  locos  vacaturos 
substituendi :  id  tamen  multis  divinae  in  me  providential  testi- 
moniis  edoctus  sum  non  esse  omnia  sensuum  judicio  aestimanda. 
Dominus  lesus  gratia  tuae  in  nos  orphanos  benignitatem  cumula- 
tissimo  cum  fcenore  rependat.  Gratiae  tuffi  deditissimus, 

Johannes  Wirdnam. 
Tou  riaTpwvof  Trpog  tov 
kxvTOv  op^avov  duxXoyog. 
n  a  T  p  60  V   Tig  si  av  og  Isvpo  Trpoa-loov,  otiTcug  sfxc  cte^vusjc  ; 
'Oppav   'Exri'xoj  6  opt^uvog  troy  {QsosUeXs  x6pn)  Trepi  ou 

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178  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

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Ka»  TYji  Iju-e  TS}co6(ni)g  [x.YjTpos  lx|3e/3Xvjjx£VOu. 

Tl  a.  T  p  w  V  TofTauT^j  sSjsaj  (?  e^Qpag)  xa)  ucrropytag  auTcuv  uniov  8e  t*  ; 
'O  p  f  Ov  as  ccyvoslv  oIjw.«j,  iraTsp  Trep)  Travrcov  svepysTins, 
'Or/  Tou  /xjcrouf  auToJv  alr/a  »;  fisou  ylvsro  <pi\iu. 
Harp'  2u  jLtsv  otiv  IxeiVoj  el  ov  lyco  'KSfx.iTTOv  ^'Srj  eroj  e/j 
' Axadi^fji^lav  ETTSjUvf/a  ;    "O  p  (p*  'Exe/xoj  auxoj.      TI  ar  p  ooV   TlSsv 
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YI  UT p'  Ti  Ss  vuv  Suvaca*  ;     O  p  1^'   Tw  fisoj  UTrep  croy  (ryvep^ccj  xi^pod'iTS 
Yipocrsv^scrSixi.   TIut'  T»va  TpoVov;   Op'  Toutov,  vpcuTOV  'iva  (rot  [/.oLxpov  x«» 
Maxapjov  Soi'r;  jSiov.   Fl  a  t"   Ti  SeuTjpov;    O  p*  "Iva  01  TraTSsj  croS  uxnrsp  T^j 
Oucriaf  ouTco  xa»  Tvj?  apST^f  TraTpjxJoj  xXYjpovoiJi.w<n.    Yl  u  t'    ti  WTaTOV  ; 
Op  4>*    'Iva  xai  crs  xai  avTOug  (xera  to'v  jSjo'v  TOvSe  elj  aXKov  aidiov 
' AvciXyviTQV  xa.)  7ravo'X/3iov  ixsTua-ToctYj. 


No.  CXII. 


A    COPY    OF    THE    LAST    WILL    AND    TESTAMENT    OF    ARCHBISHOP 

HUTTON. 

(From  a  copy  in  Ducarell's  Memoir.) 

In  Dei  nomine,  Amen.  Novemb.  20,  1605,  et  anno  reg. 
Reg.  Jacob.  8.  I,  Matthew  Hutton,  Archbishop  of  York,  whole  in 
myncle  and  boclye,  thanks  be  nnto  Ahnightye  God,  suerlye  hoping 
to  be  saved  by  the  death  and  passion  of  Jesus  Christ,  whoe  hath 
loved  me,  and  by  his  Holie  Spirytt  hath  caused  me  to  love  hym. 
Item,  I  gyve  and  bequeathe  unto  my  welbeloved  wyfe,  Frances 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  179 

Hutton,  the  best  new  yeare  gyf  in  plate  that  I  have,  which  she 
wyll  chuse  and  take.^^  Item,  I  gyve  and  bequeathe  unto  hyr  for 
the  increase  of  her  joynture  at  Darton,  and  the  lease  or  annuitye 
of  the  tythes  of  Heaton,  Storthwate,  and  Beelbie,  50''^  yearlye,  to 
be  paid  unto  hyr  out  of  the  capital  messuage  or  mannor  of  Hag- 
thorpe,  and  the  tythes  of  Hagthorpe  and  Brackenholme  in  the 
countie  of  York,  during  her  lyfe.  Item,  I  gyve  and  bequeathe 
unto  hyr  other  50^'*'  yearly,  to  be  paid  unto  hyr  out  of  my  man- 
nor of  Wharram  Percye  during  hyr  lyfe,  together  with  the  40''"' 
from  Sir  Phyllyp  Constable  for  the  increase  of  hyr  sayd  joyn- 
ture. Item,  I  give  and  bequeathe  unto  her  all  the  plate  and 
goods  and  stuff  that  was  hyrs  when  I  maryed  hyr,  or  such  parts 
thereof  as  shall  be  found  remayninge,  together  with  so  much  of 
my  movable  goods  as  is  due  to  hyr  by  the  custome  of  this  coun- 
try e  ;  my  funerall  and  legacy es  fyrst  payed  and  dyscharged. 
Item,  I  doe  gyve  unto  hyr  all  the  rents  of  hyr  own  landes  due 
at  the  time  of  my  deathc.  Item,  my  wyll  and  meaning  is,  that 
if  the  Hospitall  of  Jesus  and  the  Free  Grammar  School  (which  I 
do  erect  at  Warton,  wheare  I  was  borne,)  shall  not  be  fully e  fy- 
nished  and  endowed  by  me  with  lands  and  ly vings  before  the  time 
of  my  death,  that  then  my  sonne  Timothie  Hutton,  and  Tho- 
mas Hewyttson,  feoffees  in  truste  for  the  rent-charge  of  24'^''  I 
have  yssuing  out  of  the  mannor  and  lordships  of  Thornton  and 
Ulmbye,  and  the  fourth  parte  of  the  manor  of  Woodham,  within 
the  countie  of  Duresme,  shall  within  eight  months  after  my 
decease  well  and  suffycyentlye  assygne,  conveye,  assure  and 
grant  by  themselves,  or  their  executors,  admynystrators,  or  as- 
signes,  unto  my  right  wellbeloved  Sir  Cuthbert  Pepper,  knight, 
his  Majestie's  Surveyoure  of  the  Courte  of  Wardes,  Sir  Will. 
Gee,  knyglit,  Secretarie,  and  of  hys  Hygnes'  Counsell  in  the 
Northe,  and  M'.  Eichard  Hutton,  Sergient  at  the  Lawe,  as  well 
all  the  sayd  rent-charge  of  24^'"  by  yeare,  as  also  the  sayd 
fourthe  parte  of  the  sayd  mannor  of  Woodham,  to  and  for  the 
use  benefytt  and  behoofe  of  the  sayd  hospitall  and  schoole.  Item, 

33  The  best  new  year's  gift  presented  to  him  by  the  Queen.  At  this  period 
presents  of  money  were  annually  made  to  the  Queen  by  the  more  opulent  of  her 
subjects,  and  she  in  return  presented  to  each  donor  a  piece  of  plate,  in  general 
a  gilt  cup,  of  silver,  of  more  or  less  value,  according  to  the  amount  of  the  ori- 
ginal gift.     One  of  these  cups  is  still  preserved  at  Marske. 

.N  2 


180  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

I  give  the  capltall  messuage  or  mannor  of  Darton  aforesay J,  after 
the  death  of  my  wyfe,  unto  my  sonne  Thomas  Hutton,  and  to 
the  hej^res  of  hys  bodye  lavvfullye  begotten  for  ever ;  and,  in 
default,  I  gyve  the  same  mannor  unto  the  said  Timothie  my 
Sonne,  and  to  his  heyrcs  for  ever.  Item,  I  gyve  unto  my  said 
Sonne  Thomas  my  house  and  lands  in  Pontefract,  in  the  tenure 
or  occupation  of  William  Howlegate.  Item,  I  gyve  and  be- 
queathe unto  Timothie  my  sayd  sonne  all  recognizances,  obliga- 
tions, and  bonds  that  I  have,  for  and  concerning  assurances  of 
any  landes  or  tenements  that  I  have  purchased,  excepting  all 
such  recognizances,  bondes,  and  wrytyngs  as  are  of,  for,  and  con- 
cerninge  the  sayd  mannor  of  Darton,  and  the  sayd  house  and 
landes  in  Pontefract,  and  also  except  one  recognizance  for  the 
lease  of  Dryifeild,  which  I  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  saj^d 
sonne  Thomas,  unto  whom  I  do  also  bequeathe  and  gyve  the 
said  lease  of  Dryffeild. 

Item,  I  gjve  and  bequeathe  unto  my  daughter  Anne  Calver- 
ley's  sonne,  and  to  my  daughter  Gee's  daughter,  to  either  a 
piece  of  the  value  of  10''^  or  KV''^  in  money  to  be  bestowed  in 
plate.  Item,  I  gyve  and  bequeath  to  my  daughter  Oalverley*'s 
daughter  one  hundred  marks,  to  be  paid  by  1.3''^  vj*  viii"^ 
yearly  out  of  the  lease  and  tythes  of  Drytfeild  yearly,  untill  the 
said  hundred  marks  be  payd.  Item,  I  give  unto  ray  brother, 
Robert  Hutton,  20''*^  ;  to  ray  cosin,  Robert  Dawson  of  Warton, 
10''''  ;  and  to  his  eldest  sonne,  that  dwelleth  in  Hewton,  S''**. 
Item,  I  gyve  and  bequeathe  unto  my  nephew,  Matthew  Hut- 
ton^°  of  Awkeland,  20'"'.  Item,  I  gyve  and  bequeath  unto  M'. 
Phyllip  Foorde,  parson  of  Nunburnholme,*^  those  books  hereafter 
named,  viz.  the  wrytyngs  or  works  of  S'.  Augustine,  S'.  Hierome, 
S'.  Ambrose,  S^  Chrysostome,  Gregorie,  Tertullian,  Bassyll, 
Gregorie  Nazianzine,  Clemens  Alexandrinus,  Clemens  Romanus, 
Justine  Martir,  Ireneus,  with  soe  manje  bookes  or  partes  as  I 
have  of  Bewcer,  Calvin,  Marloat,  Musculus,  and  two  Greek 
Lexicons.  Item,  I  gyye  unto  ray  sayd  sonne  in  law.  Sir  Will. 
Gee,  my  Bible  in  Hebrew,  and  translated  by  Munster,  and  10'"'. 
Item,  I  gyve  unto  M"".  John  Calverlye,  my  sonne  in  law,  Ptolo- 

^"  Son  of  Robert  Hutton,  DD.,  Rector  of  Haughton-le-Skerne.— M.  F, 
^'  A  rectory  in  the  East   Ridino;   of  Yorkshire,   in   the   patronage  of  the 
Archbishop.    _  ,>,-^/^-/«  7"^.=^  /?    ^V^^A^    //>'^/       At*.'.^  tVU,^  v^/.  ^-^  . 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC.  181 

mie's  Tables,  set  forth  by  Munster.  Item,  I  gyve  to  the  young- 
est daughter  of  my  daughter  Remingtone  one  hundred  marks,  to 
be  payd  by  13''''  vi"*  viii'^  yearly  out  of  the  lease  of  DryfFeild,  un- 
till  all  the  sayd  hundred  marks  be  payed,  that  so  she  may  have 
as  much  in  legacye  as  I  have  heretofore  given  to  the  hands  of 
M'.  Remington,  hyr  father,  to  and  for  the  use  and  benefytt  of 
every  of  hyr  four  systers.  Item,  I  gyve  and  bequeathe  unto  my 
very  loving  trend,  M'.  Thomas  Calverley,  M'.  John  Calverley, 
Ann  Calverley,  M'.  Henrie  Dethriek,  chancellor  to  the  Lord 
Bishop  of  Carlile,  to  Richard  Bowes,  my  wyve's  sonne,  M"^.  John 
May,  M'.  Thomas  Parmentor,  M'.  Thomas  Bowes,  and  Chris- 
topher Davyll,  my  controuller,  to  every  one  of  them  40^  in  gold, 
to  make  them  ringes.  Item,  I  gyve  to  my  ancient  good  friend, 
M^  Christopher  Myller,  physician,  Paradox  Medicorum,  set 
forthe  by  Fuchius.  Item,  I  gyve  to  John  Woodwaun,  my 
chaplain,*'  so  many  of  the  rest  of  my  bookes  which  he  shall 
choose,  as,  being  indifterently  pryzed  and  rated,  shall  be  worth 
vi''"'  viii^  iiii*^.  Item,  I  gyve  to  my  sister  in  law,  Anne  Smythe- 
son,  vi^'**  yearly.  To  my  brother  Robert  Hutton's  wyfe  (if  she 
survive  her  husband)  iiii'"''  y^^i'^y  ;  to  my  niece,  wyfe  of  Will. 
Ranson,  iiii''''  yearlye  ;  to  ray  servant,  Myles  Dawson,  v^'^  yearly, 
to  be  payd  to  him  or  his  assign es  out  of  the  sayd  lease  and 
tythes  of  Drylieild,  untyll  the  lease  of  the  tythes  and  rectorye 
of  Knolton,  in  the  tenure  or  occupation  of  the  Lady  Thorold,  be 
expyred.  Item,  I  gyve  and  bequeathe  unto  my  servaunt,  Tho- 
mas Hewyttson,  10'"''.  Item,  I  gyve  and  bequeathe  unto  my 
servaunt,  Robert  Hall,  10^'*'.  Item,  I  gyve  to  every  one  of  my 
household  servants  as  folio weth ;  viz.  to  every  one  that  serve  me 
as  gentleman  liii'  iiii'',  and  to  every  yeoman  40^  Item,  I 
gyve  to  the  poor  within  the  parish  of  Warton  10''*' ;  to  the  poor 
of  the  city  of  York  v""  ;  to  the  prisoners  of  the  castle  of  York 
v'"' ;  to  the  prysoners  in  the  Kidcote  *^  there  iii''''  vi^  viii"^ ;  to  the 
poor  in  Cawood  and  Wystowe  vi''''  xiii'  iiii*^ ;  to  the  poor  of  Ripon 
vi"''  xiii^  viii*^ ;    and  to  the  poor  in  Bishopsthorpe  40^  ;  to  be  dys- 

■*-  There  can  be  little  doubt  that  this  is  the  John  Wirdnam  from  whom  we 
have  three  letters  ;  two  as  above,  addressed  to  the  Archbishop,  and  one  to  Sir 
Timothy  Hutton,  his  son,  p.  188.  Wirdnam  was  educated  at  Camln-idge  at  the 
expense  of  the  Archbishop,  and  is  afterwards  his  chaplain. 

■"  See  Wills  and  Inventories,  published  by  this  Society,  p.  83. 


182  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC 

tributed  at  the  discretion  of  my  supervy sours,  or  two  of  them. 
Item,  I  vvyll  that  my  house  be  kept,  and  servants  together,  fyve 
weeks  after  my  death.  Item,  I  do  desyre  and  appoynt  the  said 
Sir  Cuthbert  Pepper,  M^  Sergeant  Hutton,  and  Thomas 
Hewyttson  my  faithfull  servant;;  supervysors  of  this  my  wyll  and 
testament,  and  I  gyve  to  every  one  of  them  xl.  a  piece  ;  desyring 
them  all,  as  I  doubt  not  but  they  will,  to  ayd  and  assist  my 
chyldren,  to  have  a  friendly  care  of  the  good  of  my  executors, 
and  for  the  due  performance  of  thys  my  last  wyll  and  testament, 
and  especially  for  the  fynysshing  of  my  schoole  and  hospitall  at 
Warton  aforesayd,  at  the  charge  of  my  executors.  Item,  I 
gyve  to  Anthony  Bugg,'  'schollar  in  Cambridge,  foure  pounds 
yearlye  out  of  the  lease  and  tythes  of  DryiFeild  aforesayd,  to 
be  payd  to  hym  during  fyve  years  next  after  the  tyme  of  my 
death,  and  alsoe  soe  manie  and  such  of  my  bookes  as  are  fytt  for 
him  worth  iiii^'*'  vi^  viii*^.  Item,  I  desyre  my  loving  frende  M^ 
Doctor  Goodwyne,  Chauncellor  of  the  Metropolyticall  Church  of 
York,  to  preach  at  my  funerall,  and  I  give  him  x^'^.  All  the 
rest  of  my  goods  and  chattells  whatsoever,  not  gyveu  nor  be- 
queathed, I  gyve  and  bequeathe  unto  Timothie  and  Thomas  my 
said  sons,  whom  I  doe  make  and  appoynt  executors  of  thys  my 
last  wyll  and  testament.  And  if  any  doubt  or  question  happen, 
or  if  or  be  moved  {sic)  at  any  tyme  touching  the  meaning  of  this 
my  last  wyll  and  testament,  or  any  part  thereof,  my  wyll  and 
meaning  is,  that  that  shall  be  decyded  by  my  said  supervisours, 
or  by  the  greater  part  of  them  that  shall  be  lyving  at  the  time 
when  any  such  doubt  or  question  doth  or  shall  aryse.  Item,  my 
will  is,  that  if  either  my  executors,  or  any  that  hath  any  legacye 
or  gyft  gyven  in  or  by  this  my  last  wyll  and  testament,  shall 
go  about,  offer,  or  seek  to  hynder  the  execution  or  performance 
of  this  my  sayd  last  will  and  testament,  or  shall  purloyne,  take, 
or  consent  or  agree  to  the  purloining  or  taking  of  any  part  of 
the  goods  or  things  before  gyven  or  left  behynd,  then  he,  she,  or 
they  shall  loose  whatsoever  is  gyven  or  bequeathed  to  him,  her, 
or  them  in  or  by  this  my  last  wyll  and  testament. 

In  witness  whereof  I,  the  sayd  Matthewe  Archbusshopp  of 
Yorke,  have  hereunto  put  my  hand  and  scale  the  day  and  year 
first  above  and  before  wrytten. 

Matth.  Ebor. 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC.  183 

This  was  subscribed,  sealed,  and  acknowledged  by  the  above 
named  most  Reverend  ffather,  Matthew  Hntton,  Lord  Arch- 
bishopp  of  Yorke,  Primate  of  England  and  Metropolitane,  to  be 
his  last  will  and  testament,  the  foresaid  twentieth  day  of  Novem- 
ber, anno  Domini  1605,  and  in  the  third  yeare  of  the  reigne  of 
our  said  Soveraigne  Lord  James,  by  the  Grace  of  God,  King  of 
England,  France  and  Ireland,  Defender  of  the  Faith,  &c.,  and  of 
Scotland  xxxix"",  in  the  presence  of  us  hereunder  named,  being 
required  by  him  the  said  Lord  Archbishopp  to  be  witnesses  of 
the  same. 

Item,  my  will  and  meaninge  is,  that  all  rents  and  debts  due 
unto  me  out  of  or  for  myne  owne  lands  and  specialties  shall 
be  imployed  for  the  payment  of  Sir  Cuthbert  Pepper,  knight, 
and  for  the  buying  of  land  in  Pontefract  for  my  sonne  Thomas. 

Thomas  Hewitson.  Robert  Hall. 

Miles  Dawson. 


SIR     TIMOTHY     BUTTON'S 


CORRESPONDENCE,    etc. 


187 


No.  CXIII. 
MY  lord's  gift  of  £1900. 

1  APRIL,  1592.     (829.) 

Be  it  knowen  to  all  men  by  these  presents,  that  I  Matthew 
Hutton,  Bishop  of  Durham,  in  consideration  off  a  mariage  al- 
readie  solemnized  betwene  Timothie  Hutton,  my  eldest  sone,  and 
Elizabeth  Bowes,  daughter  to  Sir  George  Bowes,  knight,  de- 
ceased, and  the  Ladie  Jane  Bowes,  off  Stretlam,  widowe,  have 
given,  and  by  this  present  writing  doe  give,  unto  my  saide  sone 
Timothie  the  sume  off  one  thousand  nine  hundredth  poundes, 
whereoff  ccc'  my  said  Ladie  paied  me  in  part  off  paimeut  off  her 
daughter's  portion  ;  which  summe  is  in  an  iron  chist  in  my  bedd 
chamber,  and  is  to  be  bestowed  upon  a  purchase  for  a  jointer  to 
the  said  Elisabeth,  to  Timothie  Hutton  and  the  said  Elizabeth, 
and  to  the  heires  off  the  said  Timothie  begotten  off  the  bodie  off 
the  said  Elisabeth  ;  and,  in  default  of  such  issue,  to  the  right 
heires  of  the  said  Timothie.  In  witnes  whereof  I  have  sub- 
scribed my  name  and  put  to  my  (hand),  and  also  have  delivered 
the  key  oft'  the  said  chist  unto  the  said  Timothie,  together  with 
the  chist  and  monie  in  the  same,  the  first  day  off  April,  1592. 
By  me, 

Matth.  Dunelm. 

Sealed  and  delivered  in  the  presence  of 

Tho.  Hyltone. 
Tho.  Hewison. 
Rob.   Hall. 


(Seal,  a  Bible  open,  with  the  wordy  Odou  Vit^e,  and  the  circuiiiscriptiou 
Gladivs  Spiritvs.) 


188  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 


LETTER  CXIV. 

TOBIE    MATHEW,    DEANE     OF    DURESME,     [tO    MR.  TIMOTHY 
HUTTON.] 

Ult.  Dec.  1594.     (453.) 

Sir,  I  am  geven  to  understand  you  fall  to  your  studies  againe, 
and  thereof  am  I  glad  to  heare  ;  especially  that  you  take  a  spe- 
ciall  delight  in  historie,  the  witnes  of  tyme  and  memorie  of  life, 
yea  after  death.  Let  me  recommend  to  your  diligent  reading 
the  book  I  send  you  herewith,  a  translation  of  a  most  excellent 
author  by  a  great  learned  frend  of  myne.  You  shall  in  myne 
opinion  profit  and  please  yourself  muche  in  the  perusing  thereof, 
attending  it  well,  and  using  with  the  text  the  annotacions,  but, 
of  all  other  thinges,  preferring  here  and  there  your  Christian 
judgement  before  the  profane  pollicie  of  the  originall  writer.  No 
merveile,  for  what  booke  all  faltlesse  but  the  Book  of  God  ?  And 
so,  hartily  wisshing  you  and  yours  longe  and  prosperously  to 
enjoye  the  yeares,  lyfe,  and  land  of  your  honorable  and  rever- 
end father,  I  betake  you  and  gentle  M^^  Hutton  to  the  grace  of 
God.     At  Duresme,  ult.  Decemb.  1594. 

Your  assured  loving  frend, 

ToBiE  Matthew. 

To  my  worshipful  and  verie  loving  frende  M''.  Timothic  Hut- 
ton,  at  Awkeland. 

(The  whole  letter  in  the  hand  of  D''.  Matthew.     Seal  broken.) 


LETTER  OXV 


JOHN    WIRDNAM    TO     TIMOTHY    HUTTON,    ESQ. 

Ornatissinio  viro  domino  Tiniotheo  Huttono, 
litteraruni  fantori  niaximo. 

QuAMVis  tu,    vir  ornatissime,   no  vis   me    beneficiis   crebrisque 
afficere  soles,  novam  tamen  gratiarum   formulam  uon   reportas. 


SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  189 

imo  ne  ullam  quitlem  praHer  epistolam,  eamque  solito  more  soluta 
oratione  conscriptam.  Hinc  sane  milii  subverendum  esse  censui, 
ne  vel  ingratse  negligentise  vel  innatse  cujusdam  inscitise  meipsum 
incusem,  quod  cum  toties  scripserim,  nulla  prorsus  varietate 
usus  sim  ;  minime  igitur  mirandum  est,  si  hffic  mea  nuda  et  vul- 
garis in  scribendo  siniplicitas  eam  in  animo  tuo  nauseam  pariat, 
quam  in  stomaclio  summee  delicite,  si  per  se  ssepius  ac  soloe  de- 
gustentur,  efficiant.  Hoc  igitur  temjjore  tua  ad  ignoscendum 
propensa  fretus  voluntate,  aggressus  sum  turn  contra  ingenium 
studiuraque  meum,  rudem  et  inipolitam  compingere  poesin  ;  hoc 
enim  animo  fui,  ut  opprinii  me  officii  ouere  malim  quam  eandem 
mihi  et  tua  donatione  et  mea  sponsione  impositam  aut  propter 
negligentiam  abjicere,  aut  propter  ignorantiam  deponere.  Quod 
autem  in  me,  parentibus  amicis  et  rebus  alioqui  necessariis  orba- 
tum,  liberalitatem  tuam  exercuisti,  qua  tenues  studioruui  meoriim 
rationes  in  hac  tanta  temporum  difficultate  plurimum  levasti,  eo 
ipso  clarius  multo  elucet  virtus  tua,  quod  in  eum  beneficia  con- 
tulisti  cui  omnis  remunerandi  facultas  dempta  est.  Hoc  tamen, 
si  quid  sit,  pollicebor,  me  meaque  omnia  cum  tenuissima  ilia  in 
literis  notione  quam  aut  nunc  liabeo  aut  in  posterum  habiturus 
sum,  tuse  dignitati  deditissimam  addicere,  tibique  omnem  raeam 
observautiam,  obedientiam,  servitutem,  firmissima  fide  devinctam, 
subjicere. 

Dos  sua  cuique  datur,  non  omnia  possumus  omnes. 

Posse  datur  paucis,  velle  sed  omnis  liabet. 
Clarus  Aristoteles  phisicee  prsecepta  reliquit 

Plurima,  perpetuum  quae  meruere  decus. 
Inter  causidicos  Cicero  celeberrimus  omnes, 

Aurea  commeruit,  laurea  serta  gerens. 
Quis  tamen  agnovit  doctis  ex  omnibus  unum, 

Insignem  binis  artibus  esse  virum  1 
Hsec  ego  vaticinor,  quia  me  finxere  poetam 

Non  aptuni  Musse,  carmina  grata  loqui. 
Hand  nostris  igitur  placide  currentia  cernes 

Verba  modis,  passim  menda  sed  intus  erunt. 
Nee  minus  ilia  tuse  praconia  laudis  habebunt. 

Qui  prsebes  miseris  dona  benigna  viris. 
Hsec  faciens  etenim  vestigia  sancta  parentis 

Ipse  sequi  certas,  nomen  ad  astra  ferens. 


190  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

Quod  precor  acljutus  facias  ut  numine  dlvum, 

Propitia  quorum  cuncta  reguntur  ope  : 
Aurea  Satunius  qui  quondam  sa^cla  tenebat 

Det  tibi  foelici  prosperitate  frui, 
luppiter  altitonans  omnes  qui  fulmine  terret, 

Longaevum  faciat  teque  tuumque  patrem, 
Et  quae  vestra  manus  tribuit  mihi  dona  rependat 

Vobis,  in  vestro  ter  geminata  sinu. 

Tuse  dignitati  deditissimus, 

loHANNES    WiRDNAM. 

To  the  right   worsliippfull    M'.   Timothie    Hutton,   at   the 
Manner  in  Yorke,  give  these,  from  Cambrige. 


*  LETTER   CXVI. 

GERVASIO    VIDINI    [tO    TIMOTHY    HUTTON.] 

19  Feb.  1597.    (77.) 

La  grandezza  delF  amor  molto  M'°.  S""^.  che  con  la  suavita  de 
vostri  amorevili  costumi  mostrato  m'  havete,  e  tanta,  che  in  summo 
grado  sento  quante  gratie  vi  devo  e  quauto  obligo  vi  sono  ;  onde- 
che  apertamente  ricognosio  le  force  del  mio  debole  ingegno  non 
esser  suficinti  a  rendervi  le  deute  gratie.  Cosi  sono  in  dubio,  se 
debbio  taccer,  6  pur  sforzami  di  sodisfare  a  quel  ch'  io  debbio. 
Perclie  si  taccio  par  che  d'  animo  ingrato  possi  esser  ripresso  ; 
studiandomi  d'  adempire  il  mio  -  dovuto  officio,  ne  possendo  lo 
stelle  andar  presso  al  buon  volere,  temo  che  per  non  potervi  la  mia 
gratitudine  dimostrare,  quel  pocho  ch''  io  ni  serviesse  ad  ingratitu- 
dine,  overo  a  superbia  nom  mi  s^attribuesse,  onde  si  come  aperta- 
mente mostro  non  poter  trovar  maniera,  nella  quale  le  devute 
gratie  rendervene  possi,  cosi  prego  per  vostra  virtu  intendiate 
quel  che  con  parole  mia  mente  mostrar  vorebbe  et  non  puo,  per 
non  trovare  modo  alcuno  di  dire  alia  materia  iguale.  Ondeche 
2)oiche  tante  gratie  vi  debbio  quante  non  c**  e  speranza  di  potervi 
mai  renderne,  se  mai  in  alcun  tempo  con  le  mie  fatiche,  conti  miei 
studi  potro  giovarvi  m""  ingegnoro  che  veggiate  V  animo  mio  non 


SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  191 

esser  Ingrato.     Con  tal  proposito  resto  bascondo  lo  mane  di  V.  S. 
^  della  S°'^     Di  Kebeck,  19  di  Febraio,  1597. 
Delle  rare  virtu  di  V.  S. 

AiFecionatissimo, 

GeRVASUS   ViDlNI. 

Al  molto  mag*".  8°"^.  il  signer  Tiraotheo. 

To  his  very  assured  and  singuler  good  loving  frend,  M"". 
Timothe  Huttonn,  at  the  Manor.''* 


LETTER  CXVII. 

MR.  WATERHOUSE    [XO    TIMOTHY    HUTTON,    ESQ.] 
2  Jul.  1602.      (499.) 

Mr.  Hutton,  Here  hath  bene  a  writt  long  fForth  fFor  the  ffind- 
ing  of  an  office  after  the  death  of  Arthure  Philipps  of  Marske,  I 
heare  it  is  your  dwelling-place  ;  and  there  is  a  tenure  in  knights' 
service  offered  to  be  preferred  therof.  I  desire  you  ffor  your 
good  to  be  advised  therin,  and  I  shalbe  willing  to  give  you  my 
best  ^Furtherance  ;  but  it  is  fitt  the  writt  shold  be  retorned,  least 
some  have  advantage  to  strike  you  behind  your  backe.  So  I  cease, 
thinking  the  Assisse  weeke  to  be  a  good  tyme  to  take  order 
herin.     Yorke,  2  July,  1602. 

Your  lovinge  ffreind, 
•.  Jonas  Waterhous. 

To  my  loving  freind,  Tymothy  Hutton,  Esquire,  at  Marske, 
neare  Richemount,  be  these  dd. 

(Armorial  seal.) 


**  St.  Mary's  Abbey  at  York,  retained  in  the  hands  of  the  Crown  after  the 
Dissolution,  and  converted  into  a  place  of  residence  for  the  President  of  the 
Council  of  the  North. 


192  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  CXVIII. 

MY    BROTHER    THO.    HUTTON. 
1602.     (532.) 

Sir,  My  intertainement  at  my  coming  home  was,  contrarie  to 
my  expection,  without  any  great  reprehention  at  all.  I  have 
sent  you  the  armour  which  my  Lord  would  part  from  hy  this 
bearer,  the  particular  of  which  is  underneath  written.  I  am 
hartelie  to  desire  you  (nay  rather  earnestlie  to  intreat  you)  that 
you  would  performe  now  (quum  quid  facerem  nescio)  that  which 
heretofore  you  have  profFerred  me  (I  meane  your  hauke),  seeing 
my  Lord  is  willing  therunto,  nay,  rather  desyring  me  as  it  M'ere 
to  keepe  one  ;  and,  as  for  grewhounds  having,  alltogither  unwil- 
ling, nay,  commanding  nolens  an  volens  to  send  them  awaye. 
Thus,  leaving  my  sute  to  your  pleasure,  Avhose  pleasure  I  hope 
it  will  be  to  afford  me  some  pleasure,  I  interim  remaineing 
pleasureles,  I  cease,  though  never  cease  to  thanke.  Vale  !  6 
of  Sept. 

Tuns  ut  suns, 

Tho.  Hutton. 

Corsletts  with  furniture              .           .           .  viij 

Musketts  with  furnyture        .        >  .           .           .  iiij 

Calyvers  with  furnyture              ...  vj 

Halberts              ......  iiij 

Partecin         ......  j 

Bills 


viij 


To  his  loving  brother  M^  Timothie   Hutton,   at   Marske, 
ffive  these. 


SIR   TIMOTHY    BUTTON.  193 


LETTER  CXIX. 

MR.  HEWYTSON,    MY  LORD's    GRACE's    STEWARDS,  [tO  TIMOTHY 
HUTTON,    ESQ.] 

19  Sep.  1602.     (500.) 

Sir,  I  have  spoken  with  M'".  Pepper.  He  perused  over  your 
indenture  for  Marsk.  If  Fr.  PhiUipps  found  an  office,  then  .  .  . 
ar  not  to  trowble  your  self:  if  not,  yet  he  wokl  have  yow  to 
forebeare  untill  his  returne  from  London ;  for  he  will  have  a  spe- 
cial! regard  of  it,  to  know  howe  the  case  stands,  and  how  it  is 
holden.  I  must  and  will  speak  to  M".  Jonas  Waterhowse  ex- 
cheator  this  syttinge,  to  pray  him  to  forheare,  &c.,  for  so  M^ 
Pepper  wishes,  althowgh  I  give  him  a  fee  for  his  good  will  and 
favour,  hecawse  it  wilbe  a  matter  of  some  charge  if  you  be  forced 
to  fynd  an  office.  My  Lord  liaith  told  me  that  he  thincks  yt 
holds  not  of  hir  Majestic,  and  yet  if  it  do,  by  homadge  in  painge 
ij  races  of  gynger  ;  and  so  I  will  tell  M'.  Waterhowse.  Never 
trowble  your  self  about  that  matter,  unless  yow  wilbe  pleased  to 
speak  with  M"".  Pepper  yourself,  and  geve  him  thancks  for  his 
paines,  for  he  wold  in  no  case  take  any  ffee  of  you ;  the  rea- 
son was,  becawse  he  had  a  standing  fee  of  j\  &c.  And  so,  with 
thowsands  of  thancks  for  your  manifFold  and  kynd  favors,  with 
my  right  harty  comends  to  your  self,  M".  Hutton  with  the  rest, 
I  commend  yow  and  yours  to  the  Lord.  Bushopthorpp,  xix*^'  Sept. 
a°  1602. 

Your  w.  most  bound  att  commaund, 

Tho.  Hewytson. 

His  Grace  is  every  mornyng  in  his  cotch,  and  after  none  of 
horseback:  we  have  ij  ffyne  Fresland  mares.  I  hope  he  will 
come  the  next  yere  to  kill  the  buck  at  so  hardly  escaped. 

To  the  worshipfull  and  his  very  good  ffrend  Ty.  Hutton, 
Esq.,  att  Marsk. 


194  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 


No.  CXX. 

A    MEMORANDUM    BY    SIR    T.    HUTTON     CONCERNING    THE    RENTS 
OF    THE    MANOR    OF    HEALAUGH     IN    SWALEDALE. 

Sep.  28,  1602.     (792.) 

Wheareas  by  an  order  made  in  the  Chancery  by  the  Lord 
Keeper  that  now  is,  the  12  day  of  October  last  past,  that  the 
tenants  of  the  mannour  of  Healley  in  Swayldale,  which  hould 
there  tenements  there  of  Edmund  Mullenax,  Esquyer,  should 
pay  there  rents  from  henceforthe  unto  my  handes  untyll  further 
order  shalbe  taken  for  the  same  by  the  sayd  Lord  Keeper ; 
these  are  therefore  to  certefye  to  whome  yt  shall  appertaine, 
that  James  Arrundell  with  dyvers  others  have  payed  there  rents 
unto  me  or  my  assignes,  accordinge  as  they  are  appoynted  to  doe 
by  the  sayd  order.     Marske,  Septembris  28,  1602. 

TiMO.    HuTTON. 


LETTER  CXXL 

WILLIAM    CLOPTON    TO    TIMOTHY    HUTTON,    ESQ. 
May  1604.     (862.) 

Sir,  Haste  begetteth  barbarisme,  but  love  covereth  all  imper- 
feccions.  Your  true  gentlemanly  mynde  and  favor  have  ympor- 
tuned  my  ever-vowed  service  to  thrust  into  your  hands  anny 
thing  howe  meane  soever;  and,  whilst  you  are  reading  these, 
ymagin  you  are  talking  with  your  meanest  servant.  The  Union 
which  his  Majestic  so  ernestly  affected  is  defected,  and  spumed 
owt  of  the  Lower  Howse.  That  nation  duely  wayed  in  the 
ballance  of  reason  is  fownde  too  light  to  participate  with  owr 
warmer  temper.  His  Majestic  is  satisfied  ;  and  the  name  of 
England,  lykely  to  have  bene  buried,  is  recovered  of  that  dan- 
gerous disease.  Well,  Quod  ratio  nequit,  sepe  sanavit  mora. 
In  joy  Avhereof  we  may  all  sing  and  say,  Dicite  lo  pean,  et 
io  bis  dicite  pean.  Howe  grave  Maurice  Avith  40,000  Dutch, 
10,000  French,  and  6,000  Itahans,  sent  by  the  Great-Duke 
of  Tuscan,   hath  entered  Flanders,  releved  Ostend,  bealeagured 


SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  195 

Sluse,  I  dowt  not  but  you  have  hard.      But  one  thing-  wold  I 
ofFer  to    your   reading;    and    in    all   myne,  from    the  sea-fights 
written  by  ancient  Thucidides  in  Grecia,  in  the  great  monarchie 
of  the  Romanes,  or  scince  in  1588,  put  both  the  fleets  in  one, 
did   I   never  fynde  ;    for  4,000  sayle  are  forth,  rigged  by  the 
States,  so  narrowly  waching  the  sea  costes,   that  the  Duke  of 
Castil,  Great  Constable  of  Spayne,  lyeng  at  Dunkirke  and  ex- 
pected in  England,  dares  not  peep  forth.     Somerset  Howse  is 
richly  furnished,  and  the  Banketing  Howse  in   Whithall  new 
paynted  and  glased,  and  great  matters  provided  for  his  enter- 
taynment ;    yet  feare,  the  true  cradle  of  securitie,  with  holds  him 
from  taking  these  great  offices  of  love  and  frendship  entended  by 
his  Majestic  :    but  it  is  true,  if  the  States  katch  or  take  hold 
of  this  never  so  great  cunstable,  he  is  sewer  to  be  set  in  the 
stocks.     The  reasons  against  the  Union  containing  ij  sheets  of 
paper,  and  sent  I  suppose  to  my  Lord  fi-om  Sir  J.  Bennett,  I 
purposed  to  have  sent  yow ;   but  M''.  Hall,  having  fingered  them, 
is  so  daynty  of  them  as  I  can  not  as  yet  procure  a  coppe  :  slow- 
nes  is  the  soule  of  councell,  which  I  may  fittly  applye  to  Rob. 
Hall,  who,  thow  he  be  slowe,  yet  is  sewer,  and  he  hath  promised 
you  shall  have  them  shortly.     The  newes,  and  now  newe,  are 
that  my  Lord  of  Duresme  hath  gotten  the  garland  :    well,  he 
is  wyse,  and,  as  Tirrence  sayth,  "  scit  uti/oro  ,•"  so  is  the  fashion, 
which  most  are  apt  to  followe. 

The  Lord  Shefteld,  besydes  his  presidentship,  as  it  is  sayd, 
hath  a  grant  of  his  Majestic  for  the  government  of  the  Isles 
of  Garnsey  and  Jarnsoy,  well  worth  two  thowsand  pounds  per 
annum.  Well,  I  feare  that  to  much  gyvinge  will  kill  liberalitie  ! 
The  plage  hath  entered  the  harte  of  the  cittie,  and  yesterday 
in  Jebbergate  two  died  of  the  same. 

Ther  is  an  act  passed  to  take  away  the  clergie  from  stealers 
of  sheep  and  oxen,  which  will  do  much  good. 

William  Stillinaton  the  arch  recusant  is  committed  to  the 
castell;  but,  as  I  here,  notwithstanding  his  ymprisonment,  venit, 
immo  venit,  in  senatwm  venit.  He  with  his  keper  goeth  whither 
he  will,  so  as  I  may  say  he  is  beaten  with  roses  ;  for  quid  non 
mortalia  pectora  coc/is,  auri  sacra  fames? 

Rams  and  slings  are  but  silly  batterie, 
Pistelets  are  now  tlie  best  artillerie. 

o  2 


196  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

Doctor  Goodwin  is  lately  retorned  from  London,  but  I  feare 
me  hath  missed  the  quishion,  for  the  deanrie  ;  the  more  pittie  ;  in 
whose  prayse  I  could  say  muche. 

Sir  Jo.  Feme  and  your  brother  Gee  I  trust  shall  come  downe 
His  Majestie's  secretaries  in  the  North,  whereof  I  am  glad  to 
here. 

My  bottome  is  wynded  owt ;  and,  water  fayling,  my  poore 
boate  is  a  grounde.  The  Lorde  keep  you  and  yours,  this  raynie 
Tuesday  morning  of  May,  1604. 

Yours  to  comaunde, 

WiLLM  Clopton. 

I  have  ever  observed  your  readynes  to  do  many  g"ood,  and  to 
speake  to  my  Lord  for  them.  My  blunt  nature  avoydeth  all 
complements  of  insinuacion  :  sed  in  aurihus  dico,  tangit,  et  angit^ 
necessitas ;  alloquere  patrem  in  riieani  gratiam,  et  eris  mihi  mag- 
nus  Apollo. 

To  the  right  Avorshipful  M''.  Tymotliie  Hutton,  Esquier,  at 
Maske,  theise. 

(Seal  of  arms.) 


LETTER  CXXn. 

MY    BROTHER    REMINGTON. 
7  Jan.  1604-5.     (779.) 

Sir,  The  eight  hundreth  powndes  I  must  utterly  refuse,  as  a 
matter  quyte  out  of  my  reach.  The  six  hundreth  I  wyll  stand  to, 
upon  that  good  lyking  you  have  of  the  knight,  and  it  shall  be 
payed  in  this  sorte ;  two  hundreth  presently,  foure  hundreth 
the  14  day  of  April  at  Marsk :  all  other  thinges,  for  joynter, 
tyme  of  mariag,  and  soch  lyke,  I  referr  to  you.  Further  then 
this  I  nether  can  nor  wyll  goe,  saving  soch  kynd  remembranc  as 
all  men  use  to  have  of  ther  ehyldren  at  the  tyme  of  ther  death  ; 
then,  as  God  shall  make  me  able,  I  wyW  do  that  which  shall  well 
content  them.  I  pray  yow  lett  me  heare  as  soone  as  yow  can 
whether  this  condition  wyll  be  taken  ;  I  must  use  som  meanes 
for  the  provision  of  the  mony.  And  I  would  desyre  yow  to 
revyse  the  matter  agane  with  M'.  Wansford ;  yow  may  doe  it 


SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  197 

very  closely  by  Serjeant  Hutton.  Mary,  yow  must  say  no  moore 
.unto  them  then  to  M'.  Wansford  hym  self;  ther  is  a  great  in- 
ward familiarety  betwene  them,  and  I  doe  not  think  but  M". 
Wansford  would  be  glad  of  fyve  hundreth  powndes,  and  request 
no  soch  speede  in  the  payment.  Yf  that  fayle,  M\  Moyser  is 
as  egre  as  ever  he  was,  and  styll  expecteth  a  letter  from  yow 
to  know  how  she  standeth  affected  to  him.  I  would  have  one 
of  thes  wayes  taken  without  any  great  solemnety  ;  she  is  as  a 
wydow,  and  therfore  all  thes  ordinary  vane  expences  may  well 
be  spared.  My  cosen  Blackburne  tould  me  that  the  knight 
required  a  full  removing  from  John  Hothani ;  he  hath  alredy 
done  that  in  forme  of  law,  and  it  remaneth  as  a  publyk  act 
of  record  for  the  clering  of  them  both.      Vale!    January  7. 

Your  loving  brother,  , 

Ri.  Remington.        ^/{^c^'^-f- 


To  the  right  worshipfull  my  very  loving  brother,  "W.  Timothy 
Hutton,  Esquyre,  geve  thes. 


■?  i.-*-U-'^^'" 


No.    OXXIII. 


JOHN    ELLOWE's    note    OF    CHARDGES    WHEN    I     [siR    TIMOTHY 
hutton]    WENT    TO    LONDON. 

1605.     (732.) 

MONIE  LAID  OUT  WHEN  MY  MAISTER  WENT  TO  LONDON, 

THE    FYRST    DAY     BEINGE    FRYDAY    ATT    FERRIE    BRYGGE. 

£     S.    d. 
Imprimis,  to  the  post  at  Tadcaster  ffor  5   horses 


8  myle,   for  Wyllim   Davill   had    a   gyde,    and 
to  the  post  boye  6(/. 
Item,  to  the  powre  M. ;     to  the  man  that  gave  my 

maister  his  horse  2>d. ;   ffor  a  crowper  6f/.        ...  01 


0     9     6 
0 


ATT    DONKASTER. 

Item,  to  the  post  of  Ferriebrig  for  10  myle,  and 

the  guyde  6f/. 
Item,  ffor  suger  to  wyne  that  was  brought  8f/. ;    to 

the  poure  ^d. 


0     9     2 
0     1     0 


198  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

ATT    SCROOBIE, 

£    s.    d. 
Item,  to  the  post  of  Donkystester  7  myle  ;   for  the 

young  man  that  was  gyde  Is.         ,,,  ...  0     7     2 

Item,  ffor  beare  4id. ;  and  to  two  boyes  2d.         ...  006 

ATT    TUXFORTHE. 

Item,  to  the  post  of  Scrobie  ffor  11  myle,  and  the 

gyde  Qd.      ...  ...  ...  ...  0  10     0 

Item,  to  hym  that  kejit  the  post  horses,  and   for 

drising  of  bootes  ...  ...  ...  006 

Item,  for  a  cawdall  and  supper,  and  breakfast     ...  0     7   10 

Item,  ffor  fFyre  ...  ...  ...  0     0     7 

Item,  to  the  chamberlain  and  the  maid  that  burnt 

the  boothowse  (sic)       ...  ...  ...  006 

Item,  to  the  powre  ...  ...  ...  006 

ATT    NEWARK  E. 

Item,  to  the  post  of  Tuxforthe  for  10  myles,  and 

the  gyde  6d.  ...  ...  ...  092 

Item,  for  thre  hundrethe  of  oysters    ...  ...  020 

Item,  for  fower  quarts  of  wyne,  and  bread  and  bearre  0     2     8 

Item,  to  the  ostler  Sd.,  and  to  the  powre  od.       ...  006 

ATT    GRANTHAM. 

Item,  to  the  post  of  Newark  10  myle,  and  the  gyde 

^d.  ...  ...  ...  ...  0     9     2 

Item,  for  wyne,  and  beare  and  bread  ...  0     0  10 

ATT    WITHHAM. 

Item,  the  post  of  Grantham  for  8  myles ;  the  gyde 

6d.;   for  beare  4c?.        ...  ...  ...  0     7  10 

ATT    STAMFORTHE. 

Item,  the  post  of  Withham  for  8  myles  ;    the  gyde 

6f^-  .-.  ...  ...  ...  0     7     6 

Item,  for  burnt  wyne  Is.  4:d. ;  to  the  powre  Sd.  0     17 

ATT    STYLTON. 

Item,  the  post  of  Stamfbrth  12  myles  ;  the  gyde  6d.  0  10  10 


199 

£ 

s. 

d. 

0 

2 

9 

0 

10 

0 

0 

7 

10 

0 

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SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

Item,  the  wayts  2s. ;    the  chamberlain  4td. ;    boots 

drising  2d. ;  the  poore  Sd. 
Item,  for  supper,  breakfast,  and  fyre... 

ATT    HUNTINGDON. 

Item,   the   post   of  Stylton  for  9   myle,   and    the 

o-yde  6d. 
Item,  for  brunt  wyne,  beare  and  breade 
Item,  to  the  ostlere  2d. ;  to  the  powre  4<?. 

ATT    ROISTON. 

Item,  to  the  post  of  Huntington  for  16  miles,  and 

thegyde  6d.  ...  ...  ...  0  14     2 

Item,  the  wayts  2s.  ;  the  ostler  Sd. ;  the  maids  3d. ; 

the  post  maistre  6d. ;  the  pooer  6d.  ...  036 

Item,  at  supper,  one  sholder  of  mutton  Is.  8d.,  olifes 
2d.,  a  pullyt  and  orings  Is.  6d.  one  rabit  \s., 
larkes  Is.  4fd.,  wyne  4^.  Qd.,  bread  and  beare 
ds.  10c?.  Item,  breakfast,  brawne  2s.,  stakes 
Is.  2d.,  fyre  2s.  6c?.,  more  wyne  Is.  ...  1     0  10 

Sum  of  the  first  page  ,£8  Is.   i\d. 

ATT    WAYRE. 

Item,  to  the  post  of  Royston  for  12  myles,  and  the 

gyde  Qd.      ...  ...  ...  ...  0  10  10 

Item,  for  wyne  Is. ;  the  ostler  Sc?. ;   the  poore  4c?.  0     17 

ATT    WALTHAM. 

Item,  to  the  post  of  Wayre  for  8  myle,  and  the  gyde  0     7     6 

Item,  for  burnt  wyne,  beare  and  bread  ...  016 

Item,  for  more  wyne  when  M'.  Whytgyft  came ...  016 

ATT    LONDON. 

Item,  to  the  post  at  Waltham  for   13  myle,  and 

the  gyde 
Item,  on  Tewsday,  a  bote  to  the  parlament  stayre, 

and  my  dyuner  8c?.  6c7. 
Item,  on  Wedensday  to  the  musycke  ...  020 


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200  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC, 

£    S.    d. 
Item,  to  your  selfe,  when  you  dynd  att  the  Grew- 

honcl  in  Fletstret  ...  ...  ...  100 

Item,  on  Thursday,  my  dynner  8f^.,  and  for  tobac- 

kow  ed.       ...  ...  ...  ...  0     12 

Item,  one  Sonday,  the  musick  2s.  6d. ;   the  bote  to 

Chelsey  and  backe  3s.  ...  ...  056 

Item,  one  Monday,  to  M"^.  Bowes'  servantes,  and  in 

the  stable     ... 
Item,  to  the  kynge's  trumpeters 
Item,  for  tobackow 

Item,  to  hym  that  keept  our  sadles    ... 
Item,  gyven  to  the  servants  in  our  In 
Item,  to  the  porter  that  caried  our  sadles  and  clock- 
bags  to  Bushopsgayt 
Item,  to  the  post  master  his  servants... 
Item,  for  a  truncke,  and  bring  itt  to  our  Inn 
Item,  for  dynners  att  Westmynster  on  Sonday  at 

noone  ...  ...  ...  ...  186 

Item,   att  the   Kynge's  head    at   Bushopgayt  one 

Tewsday  that  you  cam  away  ...  ...  0164 

Item,   for  one  yeard  and  a  half  of  blacke  for  my 

cotte  ...  ...  ...  ...  0  19     0 

Item,  for  two  bands  and  two  paire  of  cuffes        ...  0  12     0 

Charges  att  our  Inn  one  Munday  att  nyght. 
Item,  one  capon   2s.  6d.,  one  shoulder  of  mutton 
2s.  4c?.,   one  rabyt,   Is.,  one  quart  of  wyne  ()d., 
olifes    and    capers    Sd.,   oringe  2d.,    cheese   4:d., 
bread  and  beare  9d.      ...  ...  ...  079 

Tewsday,  supper. 
Item,  one  breast  of  mutton  Is.  6d.,  one  capon  2s.  6d., 
olifes  and  capers  Sd.,  orings  2d.,  bread  and  beare 
llc^.,  chese  and  frute  6fi?.  ...  ...  0     5    10 

Wedensday. 
Item,  for  oysters  Is.,  for  wyne  Is.,  bread  and  beare 

4</.,  venecer  and  pepper  ...  ...  0     2     5 


SIR   TIMOTHY    BUTTON.  201 

Supper.  £    s.    d. 

Item,  one  shoulder  of  mutton  2s.  2fZ.,  one  loyne  of 
mutton,  2s.  6(i.,  two  capons  5s.,  two  rabites  2s.  4^., 
two  woodeockes  .8s.  4(/.,  2  partrige  5s.,  ffor  oliffes 
and  capers  8c?.,  oringe  and  lemmonds  8(^.,  bread 
and  beare  3s.,  frut,  chese,  and  carrowayes  Is., 
for  sacke  8(/.,  for  clary t  Is.  ...  ...  17     2 

Thursday,  supper. 
Item,  one  breest  of  mutton  Is.  8(i.,  one  capon  2s.  6(/., 
olifes  and  capers  3c?.,  oringe  2(5?.,  bread  and  beare 
10c?.,  frut,  chese,  and  carowes  10c?.,  clarit  wyne 
Is.  6c^.  ...  ...  ...  ...  0     7     5 

Fryday  nought  but  ayle,  beare,  and  fyre ;  we  supt 
att  Fleet. 

Saterday,  supper. 

Item,  one  brest  of  veale  2s.  2c/.,  one  capon  2.:?.  ^d.^ 
oring  2o?.,  bread  and  beare  lie/,,  frut  and  cheese 
4c?.,  wyne  M.  ...  ...  ...  0     6     7 

Sonday,  nothyng  but  beare  and  fyre  att  our  Inn ; 
for  we  dyned  att  Westmynster,  and  went  to 
Chelsea. 

Mondy,  supper. 

Item,  one  shoulder  of  mutton  2s.  2c?.,  one  brest  of 
veale  2s.  4c?.,  two  brestes  of  mutton  3s.  4c?.,  two 
capons  hs.  4c/.,  one  loyne  of  mutton  2s.  2c/,,  two 
rabites  2s.  4c?.,  two  woodeockes  3s.,  2  partridges 
5s.,  bread  and  beare  4s,  ^d.^  oringes  10(/.,  sallites 
Is.,  frute,  chese,  and  carowyes  Is.,  one  potle  of 
sack  Is.  2c/.,  5  potles  of  clarit  wyne  os.  ...  1   19     4 

Tewsday  morning. 

Item,  for  oysters,  bread  and  wyne 
Item,  for  beere  and  ayle  betwext  mayles 
Item,  for  fyre  whyle  we  were  there    ... 
Item,  for  washing  Is. ;  for  your  chamber  8s. 

The  som  of  all  att  oui'e  In  is  ;£5  1  J)s,   od. 


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202  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

Cominge  home  on  Tewsday. 

ATT    WALTHAM. 

£    s.    d. 

Item,  to  the  post  of  London  for  13  myles  for  5 

horses,  and  the  gyde,  and  for  beare  2(/.  ...  0  14     6 

ATT    WAYRE. 

Item,  for  meat,  drynk,  wyne,  suger,  and  fyre     ...  1   15     0 

Item,  to  the  musyke  7s. ;  to  a  smyth  for  takes  and 

crowper  to  my  m^^  sadle  5d.  ...  ...  0     7     5 

Item,  to  M^  Wansforth's  footman  2s.  ;    the  cham- 

berlayns  Is.  ;  for  boots  8(/.  ...  ...  0     3     3 

Item,  the  poore  Qd.  ;  the  ostler  2,d.  ;  for  beare  that 

was  had  after,  4^d.         ...  ...  ...  010 

Item,  the  post  of  Waltham  for  6  horses  8  myle,  and 

the  gyde      ...  ...  ...  ...  0  10  10 

Item,  for  beare  and  ayle  att  Wayde's  mill  ...  0     1   10 

ATT    ROYSTON. 

Item,  the  post  of  Ware  for  5  horses  12  myle,  and 

the  gyde  for  mending  his  head  Is.  ...  0  13  10 

Item,  for  burnt  sacke,  beare,  and  fyre  ...  0     2     0 

Item,  to  the  post  maister.  Bland,  and  the  servants  0     10 

HUNTINGTON. 

Item,  to  the  post  of  Royston  for  16  myles,  and  the 

gyde  ...  ...  ..'.  ...  0  17     6 

Item,  to  the  musyck,  5s. ;  the  chamberlaynes  Is.  Qd. ; 
botes  and  clothes  drissinge  od. ;  to  the  poore,  i^d. ; 
to  the  ostlers  4f/.  ...  ...  ...  075 

Item,  for  meatte  and  fyre  ...  ...  0  19     0 

ATT     STYLTON. 

Item,  the  post  of  Huntington  for  9  myles,  and  the 

gyde  hd.      ...  ...  ...  ...  0  10     2 

ATT    STAMFORTH. 

The  post  of  Stylton  for  12  myle,  and  hymself  5^.  0  13     4 

Item,  for  burnt  sack,  bread  and  beare  ...  0     1    10 

Item,  the  ostler  Sc?.,  and  the  powre  Ad.  ...  0     0     4 


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SIR   TIMOTHY    IIUTTON.  203 


ATT    WITHAM. 

The  post  of  Stamforth  for  8  myles,  hymselfe  mill 

ATT    GRANTHAM. 

The  post  of  Witham  for  8  miles,  and  hymself     ... 

For  meat,  wyne,  and  fyre 

Item,  to  the  chamberlaynes  1^. ;  to  the  constable 
that  got  the  horses  6d.  ;  for  botes  drising  2d. ;  to 
a  Sadler  for  mending  my  sadl  Is.    ...  ...  0     2     8 

ATT    NEWWARKE. 

Item,  the  post  of  Grantham  for  10  myles,  and  hym- 
selfe ...  ...  ...  ...  0  11     3 

Item,  for  oysters,  wyne,  beare  and  bread  ...  0     3     0 

Item,   to   thre  men  that  brought  horses  (\d. ;   the 

^owx  8d.      ...  ...  ...  ...  0     12 

ATT   TUXFORTH. 

The  post  to  Newwark  for  10  myles,  and  the  post  Oil     3 

For  bear  and  ayle  6d. ;    the  ostler  2d.  ;    the  powre 

Sd.  ...  ...  ...  ...  0     0  11 

ATT    SCROBIE. 

The  post  of  Tuxforth  for  11  myle,  and  hymself  0  12     3 

ATT    DONKASTER. 

The  post  of  Scrobie  for  7  myle,  and  for  hymselfe 
For  burnt  sack,  bread,  bear,  and  suger  to  wyne 

that  was  gy ven 
The  ostler  Sd. ;  the  powr  6d. 

ATT    FERIEBRYGE. 

The  post  of  Donkaster  for  ]  0  myles,  and  the  gyd  4^d. 
For  meatte  and  drynk 
For  wyne  and  suger 

For  fyre  6d.;  the  servants  Is.;  the  ostler  4^.;  the 
poor  6d. 


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CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

ATT    TADCASTER. 


The  post  of  Ferriebrig  for  8  myles,  and  hymself  . . . 
The  ostler  2f^. ;  the  poore  4<d. 


ATT  BUSHOPTHORPE. 


The  post  of  Tadcaster  for  8  myles,  and  hymself  ... 
£U  12s.  4d.  In  all  =^39  3s.  2d. 


£  s.  d. 
0  9  2 
0     0     6 


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No.   OXXIV. 

A    NOTE    OF    PARCELLS    WHICH    I    BOUGHT    OF    RALPH    ROBINSON, 

OF    LONDON. 

Febr.  14,  1605.     (740.) 
Bought  of  Raphe  Robinson,  14""  Februarye,  1605. 


1  riclie  clothe  of  silver  cabinett  {sic) 

6  pair  of  imbrod.  gloves  [2  paire  taken  oute] 

1  riche  imbrod.  muffe  in  coulers 

1  blacke  clothe  belte 

1  parrisworke  shuyte  and  knyfes 


Boughte  more,  1  pair  riche  neadleworke  hingers 

2  fannes  with  ivorye 

2  perchmente  fannes  with  woode 

5  pair  silke  and  silver  brasletts 

2  pair  Frenche  garters 

3  Frenche  parristwees 
3  girdles  and  dagers 
2  pair  riche  velvett  myttins 

6  dossen  points 
6  pair  of  fine  stichte  gloves 


1  pair  carnation  silke  stockings  ...  ...  1   18     0 

1  rich  imbrod.  quyshon  and  1  taffety  wastecoate  3  15     0 


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SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  205 


LETTER  CXXV. 


JOHN    PRICE,    RECTOR    OF    MARSKE,    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

18  Ap.  1607.     (716.) 
Jesus  in  ore  mel,  in  aure  melos,  in  corde  Jubilus. 

Eight  woorsliipfull,  Well  I  wot  I  may  be  justly  taxed  for 
neglect  of  dutie  all  this  while,  because  ne  ypu  quidem.  But  my 
excuse  is  that  trowautly  one  of  schoole-boyes,  partly  want  of 
argument,  (unless  I  should  cry  gratias  !  gratias  !  gratias  ! 
usque  ad  ravim,  coockoow-like,)  but  especially  the  defect  of  con- 
venient cariers  ;  for  our  Trotters  of  Richmond  (sic  men-dicunt)  - 
make  so  light  of  our  letters  in  winter,  that  they  make  light  of 
them  indeede ;  and  in  soommer  season  they  are  so  importable, 
that  they  still  consecrate  them  to  Vulcan  or  to  Deucalion.  Now, 
havinge  met  so  meete  a  messenger,  I  may  not  permit  him  to 
part  illiterat  out  of  our  coasts.  We,  your  worship's  poore  beades- 
men  heare  at  Marske,  are  right  heartily  glad  whensoever  we 
heare,  though  it  be  but  seldom,  that  you  keepe  your  health ; 
yet  our  joy  should  be  moore  full  at  your  joyfull  returne,  at 
which  tyme  our  acclamation  might  accompany  the  accumulation 
of  our  joye.  And  whereas  (by  report)  som  dilapidations  are 
like  to  cause  you  to  dilapidate  some  silver  for  the  behooff  of 
your  quicke  and  nimble-witted  counsellors,  I  could  wish  (if 
it  were  possible,  and  I  dare  say  you  are  so  naturally  inclined,) 
that  you  could  like  of  Alphonsus  his  good  advise,  Ojitimi  con- 
siliarii  mortui ;  namely,  those  that  Erasmus  in  his  Chiliads 
termeth  mutos  magisfros.  Credit  me  your  dead  counsellers 
(heere  at  Marske)  are  the  best  counsellers  livinge,  quia  puram 
propinant  mrUatem.  If  anie  be  so  peevishly  litigious  that  shall 
force  you  to  take  some  other  course,  if  he  will  grace  you  noe 
more,  God  send  him  more  grace.  I  understand  my  Lord  of 
London  is  translated.  If  wishes  might  prevayle,  (alas  !  I  must 
needes  speake  affectionately,  as  well  in  regard  of  his  countrey, 
as  also  of  his  most  ingenuous  disposition,)  I  could  have  wished 
that  a  number  of  his  noate  might  have  borrowed  him.  But 
God's  will  be  doone.  If  your  occasions  would  permit,  I  ^^'ould 
{nil  eniin  nisi  vota  supersunt)  you  might  stay  as  little  a  while 


206  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

at  London  as  he  did  in  his  office  qui  somnum  7ion  mdit  in 
consulatu  ;  and,  when  you  com  to  Marske,  God  graunt  you 
may  returne  to  London  ag-aine  at  such  a  tyme  of  the  yeare 
as  Vatinius  was  Consul  in  Roome,  when  there  was  neither 
soommer,  winter,  springe,  nor  autumne/^  and  that  wilbe  just  ad 
Gr(tcas  calendas,  the  29*^  day  of  February  next.  Little  John 
Hutton  is  well  at  Marricke ;  I  saw  him  upon  Thursday  the  1 6* 
of  April  instant.  Your  colledge  of  crowes  multiply  so  exceed- 
ingly that  we  stand  (almost)  in  as  great  aw  of  them  as  those 
nanes  and  pigmays  do  of  the  cranes.  All  Marske  parish  have 
concluded  (to  the  utter  impooverishinge  of  the  poore  parson) 
not  to  plough  one  forrow  this  yeare  for  feare  of  the  crowes, 
which  will  hinder  me  more  than  I  speake  of.  But,  seinge  I  fell 
into  mention  of  crowes,  I  will  conclude  with  Csesar's  crowe,  Am  ; 
for  I  trust  I  canot  say  with  that  cobler's  crow.  Oleum  atque 
operam  perdidi.  Thus,  coramendinge  my  dutie  to  your  worship 
and  to  my  good  lady,  wishinge  health  and  happines  to  all  your 
family,  I  commend  you  to  Him  that  is  our  savinge  health. 
IMarske,  the  18'^  of  Apr.  instant,  1607. 

Your  worship's  ever  to  be  commaunded, 

Jo.  Price. 

To  the  riglit  woorshipfull   Sir  Timothy  Hutton,  Knight,  at 
Chelcey,  these  give. 


LETTER  OXXVI.. 

JOHN    BLACKBURN    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

24  May,  1607.     (777.) 

Right  worshipfull,  Beinge  at  Riclimunt  the  other  day,  ther 
came  Robart  Willams  unto  me  and  asked  me  a  question  from 
Sir  William  Graskinge,  that  was,  he  was  hard  sey  that  yow 
would  sell  youer  land  in  Richmunt ;  and  he  said,  if  there  were 
any  such  intention,  I  knue  itt ;  and  I  tould  him  I  never  hard 
of  any  such  thinge.  I  perseve  by  him  that  he  Avould  gladly 
bye  it  on  yow,  and  would  give  yow  reason  for  itt  neare  youer 
owne  money  yow  gave   for  it ;    and   I  dare   undertake   to  bye 

*"  Maciol).  Satuin.,  lib.  ii.  cap.  3. 


SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  207 

nynschore  pound  land  in  the  yere  for  that  he  will  give  for  it, 
and  wee  meike  hut  of  it  littell  more,  and  sevensehore  pounds  in 
the  yere  ;  and  I  doupt  itt  will  not  stand  at  that,  for  Yets  will 
not  be  able  to  pey  the  rents  of  the  miles.  And  I  would  have 
to  consider  one  itt,  and  to  let  my  ladye  see  this  letter,  for  he 
will  sell  his  land  in  Busshupbrige,  Ranworth  Castell,  a  gooly 
thinge,  worth  fower  houndrith  pounde  in  the  year ;  and  it 
is  thought  the  cole  mynds  is  as  good.  And  I  dessire  youer 
worsshipe  to  writ  by  the  first  that  comes  youer  anssquar  unto 
me,  for  yow  have  noe  land  in  England  that  I  woidd  have 
yowe  to  sell  but  itt ;  and  I  doe  not  doupt  but,  that  my  ladye 
and  I  had  the  dispossinge  of  the  money,  to  by  you  land  worth 
tow  hundrith  pound  in  the  yere  for  yow  and  youer  heires  for 
ever ;  and  yow  know  itt  was  bought  to  deare  be  five  hundrith 
pound,  and  he  will  give  yow  youere  money  with  littell  lose. 
Sir,  I  would  have  you  to  writ  unto  M"^!  Sere,  for  he  haith 
takine  upp  an  intake,  one  Shawmoure  :  if  yow  suffer  him  he  mey 
taike  uj)p  all  the  whole  com  en,  yow  are  as  free  for  the  third 
as  he  is  for  the  tow  parts,  ^r.  Woodaill  would  not  suffer  him 
to  taike  up  a  howse  steid,  but  poulde  itt  downe  ageine  ;  ye 
lowe  to  drive  thinges,  but  I  prey  yow  let  not  this  be  driven, 
for  his  owne  tenants  murmers  at  it,  but  they  dare  sey  nothinge. 
For  youer  lyne  I  hope  my  wife  will  send  it  by  the  first  that 
comes,  for  shee  could  get  none  that  was  bleched  not  then.  I 
receved  your  letter  by  John  Smyth,  and  as  sone  as  I  can  get 
the  money  I  shall  send  itt  upp.  All  youer  sweet  childeren  is  in 
good  health,  Good's  name  be  preassed  !  And  thus  I  would  have 
yow  to  conssider  on  this,  and  to  writ  to  me  youer  ansquar.  And 
thus,  with  my  humley  dutey  and  my  wife  to  youer  good  wor- 
sshipp  and  my  good  lady,  I  commit  yow  to  the  tuission  of  the 
Almighty.     Marragg,  this  xxiiii'''  of  Mey,  1607. 

Youer  lovinge  sarvant  to  command  till  deith, 

John  Blakborn. 

Sir,  I  hadd  for  gotten  one  thinge  to  write  on  to  yow,  and  that 
is  conserninge  Olynts  paster.  There  heith  bene  toAv  juries  by  them 
of  Reimesworth,  and  they  gave  great  words  that  they  will  cast 
itt  downe  ageine  ;  and  so  I  wrot  unto  Sir  Francis  Duckett,  and  he 
heith  written  to  me  that  they  have  a  skuritle  of  tow  tussant 
pounds  of  youer  lands  att  Marske  for  the  warrinty  of  itt,  and.  if 


208  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

they  be  any  wey  molested,  they  will  put  in  sutte.  Lokinge  in  youer 
evedence  cheest  att  Maske,  I  looked  and  there  I  did  find  in 
M^  Phillipe's  indenture  which  he  did  sell  Clynts  by  Symsson, 
Farmat  exepted,  vj  akers  of  the  yearly  rente  of  xi^  v'*.  ob.  which 
Sir  Francis  Ducket  heitli  writen  that  it  was  past  in  the  dead 
of  seale  for  land  ;  and  I  have  sent  yow  Sir  Francis  Duckeitt  letter 
inclossed,  which  he  did  writ  unto  me ;  and  Sir  Francis  Man  seith 
that  yonge  M^  Labberan  will  be  with  yow  this  terme  as  con- 
cerninge  itt. 

To  the  right  worshippfull  my  very  good  meister,  Sir  Tymothay 
Hutton,  Knyght,  att  Celsey,  neare  London,  dd.  this 
with  speed. 

LETTER  CXXVII. 

ADRIAN    CAREW,    MASTER    OF    WARTON    SCHOOL,    TO    SIR 
TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

July  27,  1608.     (401,  the  21"'  Bundell.) 

Right  worshipfull,  my  humble  dutie  remembred,  &c.  Sir,  I 
receaved  a  letter  of  reprehension  of  late  from  my  dearest  cousen 
Sherrard  for  not  wrighting  unto  you  by  the  returne  of  John 
Ellow,  which  time  would  not  permitt ;  yet  his  legate  discovereth 
the  effectuous  zeale  of  a  mind  fraught  plenteouslie  in  him  with 
the  bewtie  of  memorable  thankfulhies.  He  knowes  that  malum 
non  recedet  e  domo  ingrati^^ ;  of  which  I  was  nither  unmindful], 
nither  yet  do  I  anie  waie  distast  his  grave  and  strict  admonition 
in  the  same.  His  lines  alltoofeather  incited  me  to  thankfullnes ; 
yea,  thankfullnes  to  you,  to  whose  extraordinarie  favour  I  never 
can  be  sufficientlie  enough  thankfull,  and,  to  use  his  owne  saying, 
Grates  2)&r  solve  re  dlgnas  non  opis  est  nostra,  from  the  bountie  of 
whose  charitable  palme  I  receaved  a  refuge  against  all  schollars' 
common  enimie,  viperous  necessitie,  yea  a  cataplasme  carefullie 
carefullie  {sic)  imploid  against  the  frequent  wound  of  this  ulcerous 
world's  unregard  of  the  Muses.  Sir,  I  am  not  unthankfull,  God 
that  knows  my  hart  is  assured.  Nither,  were  that  within  the  limitts 
of  my  power  to  be  procured  which  should  shew  it,  I  would  rack 
my  self  to  leavie  the  arrerage,  I  would  not  owe  it  :  not  that  my 

*^  Plii.  Melancth.  in  Hesiod. 


SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  209 

shallownes  in  judgement  can  intimate  anie  thing  that  you  expect 
other  at  my  hands  then  a  hartie  care,  and  a  hand  to  office  that 
hart  in  the  true  pourtracture  of  the  same  care  ;  but  because  I 
would  not  through  my  oversight  work  anie  uneavenes  in  that 
path  which  you  so  divine  wisehe,  honourabhe,  humanehe,  charita- 
bHe,  and  humblie  have  laid  before  my  deare  consents  feete  ;  my 
deare  dearest  cousen,  who  hath  consented  often  to  my  thought, 
and  I  to  his,  in  this  (and  that  without  assentation),  j^ou  are  a 
man  made  up  of  divine  wisedome,  honour,  humanitie,  charitie, 
and  one  in  whose  rank  it  is  rare  to  find  the  like  for  true  humilli- 
tie,  humilitie  the  fayre  ornament  of  all  grace  and  vertue.  Sir, 
I  will  be  thankfull,  and  my  verie  soule  is  allreadie  resolved  into  a 
myriad  of  thanks  for  your  marveylous  respects  laid  upon  us  and 
bounteous  effects  :  but  my  hart  is  ashamed,  and  I  doubt  the 
acceptance  ;  for,  being  of  late  sick  of  some  abuse,  my  choller  will- 
fuUie  pursued  for  an  untimelie  medicine,  having  forgotten  that 
morhis  nihil  est  magis  periculosum  then  immatura  medicina  (Se- 
neca) ;  by  which  I  have  done  that  which  will  undoe  the  kind 
knot  of  your  favour  towards  me.  The  matter  I  refer  to  my 
cousen's  lips,  being  loath  to  regester  the  unhappie  cause  of  my 
recession  in  that  which  should  be  the  record  of  my  progression 
in  the  vertue  which  you  have  busied  me  in  ;  when  he  hath  spoken 
it,  beleve  it  (I  beseech  you),  he  shall  speake  the  truth.  Credit,  I 
humbly  praie  you,  no  vulgar  tongue,  for  Ple^  non  judicium,  non 
Veritas.  (Tacit.)  Non  est  consilium  in  mdgo,  non  ratio,  non  discri- 
men  :  ex  opinionemulta.,  ex  mritate pauca  judicat.  (Cicero.)  Nither 
too  much  to  our  predecessors,  though  they  have  bene  kind  ;  for  no 
doubt  ^'Egris  oculis  alienam  foelicitatem  intuentur.  (Tacit.)  And 
then,  I  beseech  you,  give  me  leave  to  be  my  owne  judge.  My 
selfe  have  done  the  offence  most  against  my  selfe,  for  ^^•hich  I 
will  exile  my  selfe  from  all  hope  of  your  abused  favour  ;  and,  I 
most  humblie  beseech  you,  respect  my  cousen  nothing  the  worse, 
in  whom  you  are  nothing  deceaved.  What  you  have  done  for 
me  praie  permitt  me  to  resigne  againe  to  his  brothers,  whose 
sufficient  lerning  for  Grreeke  and  Latin  can  well  discharge  this, 
and  a  greater  charge  then  this.  Their  modestie  and  civillitie  is 
as  their  brother's.  I  doubt  not  but  you  will  be  pleased  in  their 
dilligence,  pacience,  and  temperance.  I  will  thankfullie  make 
restitution  to  them  of  all  that  I  receaved,  except  your  favour, 
which  I  have  wiljtfullie  lost.  Una  salus  victis  nullam  sperare  sa- 
*  p 


210 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


lutem.  (Virgil.)  Ireland,  which  hath  begun  my  gi-iefe,  shall 
ease  it,  or  end  it,  as  God  shall  please.  For  those  that  have 
abused  me  here,  God  forgive  them.  I  cannot  with  pacience  live 
anie  longer  among  them.  Nee  aniissos  colores  lana  refert  medi- 
catafuco.  (Horace.)  God  forgive  my  offence  towards  you  ;  to 
redeeme  the  which,  I  will  taxe  all  the  actions  of  my  hands,  and 
thoughts  of  my  hart.  Yea,  my  hart,  hands,  life,  lerning,  all 
that  I  have,  shall  be  alwaies  readie  to  be  exposed  to  the  honour 
of  you  and  your  most  honourable  ladie.  I  onlie  request  this 
one  thing  at  your  hands,  your  favourable  report.  I  will  sowe  the 
seedes  of  true  repentance  for  my  rash  oversight,  by  the  which  I 
hope  againe  in  time  to  regaine  grace  at  your  honourable  hands. 
Multo  firmior  est  fides  quam  reponit  poBnitentia.  Not  forgetting 
my  dutie  to  your  singular  good  ladie,  your  excellent  chilldren, 
the  ingenuous  offspring  of  right  generous  parents,  I  a  thousand 
times  recall  all  your  curtesies,  readie  to  take  my  leave  of  dis- 
courteous Lancashier.     Warton,  Julii  27°,  1608. 

Obliged  to  your  worship   in  all  the  offices  of 
humilitie  and  thankfullnes, 

Adrian   Carew. 
To  the  right  worshipful  my  most  worthie  good  frend,  Sir 
Timothie  Hutton,  at  Mask,  give  these  with  speede. 


No.  CXXVIII. 


MATTHEW    HUTTOn's    ACCOMPTS. 
December,  1614,     (727.) 

a  note  of  my  expenses. 
Imprimis,  to  the  butlers  for  my  admission*'^ 
Item,  to  the  porter 
Item,  for  Tullie's  workes 
Item,  for  a  cap  and  band 
Item,  for  a  desk 

Item,  for  makinge  of  my  surplesse 
Item,  for  showstrings 

""  These  accounts  are  kept  partly  in  Roman  and  partly  in  Arahic  numerals. 
We  adopt  the  latter. 


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SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 


211 


Item,  for  a  bible 

Item,  for  a  jDaire  of  cuffes 

Item,  for  Rider\s  Dictionarie 

Item,  for  Mamitius's  Phrases 

Item,  for  a  paper  booke    ... 

Item,  for  candles 

Item,  for  a  mattresse 

Item,  for  Heliodorus 

Item,  for  a  coiFer  ...  ..." 

Item,  for  a  head-brush 

Item,  for  a  tinder-box 

Item,  for  a  lookinge-glasse 

Item,  for  a  paire  of  shoes  ... 

Item,  to  the  head  lectm'er 

Item,  for  candles 

Item,  to  the  tennis  court  ... 

Item,  to  the  intertainment  of  the  Kinge*^ 

Item,  for  a  paire  of  shoes 

Item,  for  dressinge  and  lininge  of  my  hatt 

Item,  for  suppers  on  fasting  nights 

Item,  for  stoppinge  of  my  bed 

Item,  for  coales 

Item,  to  my  lawndresse    ... 

Item,  to  the  settinge  out  of  the  commoedie'*^ 

Item,  for  a  paire  of  gloves 

Item,  commons  and  sizinge  from  the  sixteenth  of 

November  till  the  22"^  of  December 
Item,  for  a  paire  of  stockings 


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^'  James  I.  visited  Cambridge  in  the  following  spring,  and  from  this  item  it 
would  appear  that  contributions  were  made  by  the  students  in  the  preceding 
term  to  defray  the  expenses  of  his  entertainment.  There  can  be  no  mistake 
with  respect  to  the  date,  1614,  at  the  head  of  the  document,  as  it  is  thrice  re- 
peated on  the  back  of  the  original  bill  in  Sir  Timothy  Hutton's  omti  hand. 

*^  Either  some  Christmas  dramatic  representation  before  the  College,  or  Uni- 
versity at  large  ;  or,  which  is  perhaps  more  probable,  in  preparing  scenery  and 
other  arrangements  for  the  famous  comedy  of  Ignoramus  and  other  plays,  per- 
formed before  the  King  in  the  following  March.  It  may  be  that  the  visit  of  the 
King  was  intended  to  have  taken  place  during  the  last  term  in  1614  ;  and,  if 
so,  this,  and  a  preceding  item  in  the  bill,  are  sufficiently  explained.  V.  Col- 
Iyer's  Annals  of  the  Stage,  i.  393,  and  Nichols's  Progresses  of  James. 

p  3 


212  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

Item,  for  dyinge  of  my  silke  stockinges 

Item,  for  a  paire  of  garters  and  roses 

Item,  to  my  selfe 

Item,  for  a  paire  of  gloves 

Item,  for  a  sattan  coller    ... 

Item,  for  a  paire  of  shoes  and  goloshoes 

Item,  for  mendinge  and  lettinge  out  of  my  silke  sute 

Item,  to  the  harber 

Item,  for  suppers  on  fastinge  nights  ... 

Item,  my  part  for  sealinge  of  my  chamber 

Item,  for  furnishinge  my  chamber  with  necessaries 

Item,  for  a  chaire,  a  table,  shelves,  and  paintinge 

of  my  study 
Item,  coales  and  turfes 
Item,  coales  and  turfes 

Summa 

THE    EXTRAOBDINARIES. 

Imprimis,  to  the  tennis  court 

Item,  to  the  intertainment  of  the  Kinge 

Item,  sealinge  of  my  chamber  and  furnisheinge  it 

with    all   things  necessarie,   together   with    my 

study 
Item,  stoppinge  of  my  bed 

Summa 


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LETTER  OXXIX. 

MR.    ALDERSON    [tO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTOn]. 
June  4,  1615. 

EMANUELL. 

WoRSHiPFULL,  my  comendacions  with  my  love  to  you  and  to 
yours,  with  your  lovinge  bedfellowe ;  trustinge  of  all  good  helthes, 
&c.     I  have  receyved  your  letter  dated  in  Aprill  17,  1615  ;  the 


SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  213 

contents  thereof  I  am  fully  satisfied  therein.  The  gentlewoman 
is  travelled  to  a  lady  in  London  which  is  her  aunt,  a  woman  of 
great  estimacion ;  yet  the  maid  is  expected  very  shortly  hack 
ageyn,  and  suer  I  am  it  will  not  he  longe  before  her  retourne. 
For  my  owne  part,  although  I  have  bene  very  ill,  in  respect  of  a 
suddayn  mischance  in  danger  of  my  lief,  which  mischance  (God 
be  praised)  I  have  reasonably  recovered ;  yet,  notwithstandinge, 
the  contents  of  your  worshipfull  letter  shall  be  so  equally  and 
even  waighed  to  the  effect  thereof  as  I  or  the  uttermost  of  my 
power  can  performe,  and  moreover  as  you  and  yours  shall  here- 
after finde  my  true  love  in  beinge  so  faithfull  an  instrument  in 
the  performance  of  the  busynes.  So  I  intreat  that  your  love  and 
kindenes  may  extend  towards  the  love  of  this  my  nephewe,  ffor 
I  understand  his  effection  towards  your  worship ;  and  in  like  sort 
to  doe  him  good  I  intreat  your  worship's  furtherance.  The 
grownd  which  I  bought  a  part  of  itt,  is  of  your  side  the  water  ; 
which  grownd  I  should  have  exchanged  with  M^  Woodall  for 
the  Owlands  ;  in  which  tyme  of  performance  the  covenants  be- 
twene  us  to  that  effect  he  grewe  weak  in  understandinge  and 
could  not  performe  :  which  busynes  betwene  my  nephewe  and 
yourself  shall  be  referred  to  your  worship''s  censui'e ;  otherwise 
my  nephewe  if  he  will  not  doe,  it  shall  be  to  his  great  lose,  but 
I  hope  he  will.  I  give  you  harty  thanks  for  your  kindenes  to- 
wards him  ;  and,  if  he  doe  accordinge  to  your  order  in  that  kinde, 
I  hope  it  shall  be  to  his  good  and  my  well  likinge.  Thus,  desir- 
inge  your  worshipp's  love  in  my  request  an  answere  by  this  bearer, 
I  committ  you  and  yours  to  the  protection  of  the  Almighty,  rest- 
inge  yours  to  the  uttermost  performance  of  your  letter  to  my 
power. 

Anthony  Alderson. 

Post  script.    The  estate  of  the  gentlewoman  I  make  noe  ques- 
tion thereof,  for  it  is  sufficient. 

Warlingwarth,  4  of  June,  1615. 


214 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


No.  CXXX. 


MATT.    HUTTON  S    ACCOMPTS. 


June  24,   1615.     £16  lis. 

Imprimis,  3  weekes''  commons  in  the  towne  in 

Lent 
Item,  for  matriculation 
Item,  for  a  Keckerman  his  logicke 
Item,  for  a  paper  booke 
Item,  for  a  paire  of  slippers 
Item,  to  my  selfe 
Item,  for  coales 

Item,  for  Isocrates  in  Greeke  and  Latine 
Item,  for  Seneca  his  tragedies 
Item,  for  a  paire  of  shoes 
Item,  for  a  paire  of  gloves 
Item,  for  a  girdle 
Item,  for  a  quere  of  paper 
Item,  for  a  combe 
Item,  for  suppers  in  fastinge  nights 
Item,  for  setting  up  of  my  bed 
Item,  for  4  weekes''  commons  in  the  towne  at 

the  King  second  comminge^°    ... 
Item,  towards  the  entertainment  of  the  Kinge 

at  his  second  comminge 
Item,  for  a  hatband    ... 
Item,  to  the  barber     ... 
Item,  for  tuition 
Item,  to  my  sizer 
Item,  to  my  laundresse 
Item,  chamber  rent     ... 
Item,  for  makinge  my  bed  and  dressinge  my 

chamber 
Item,  for  commons  and  sizinge 


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^o  The  King  visited  Cambridge  a  second  time  in  May,  1615,  to  be  present  at 
a  second  performance  of  the  comedy  of  Ignoramus. 


SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 


215 


THE    TALOR  S    BILL. 


£     S.     d. 


Imprimis,  4  ounces  halfe  quarter  and  a  dram  of 

Naples  lace 
Item,  a  yeard  of  canvase 
Item,  3  quarters  of  an  ounce  of  Spanish  silke 
Item,  4  yeards  &  halfe  of  white  lininge  bayes 
Item,  4  dozen  of  Naple  silke  buttons 
Item,  2  yeards  3  quarters  of  white  jeane  fus- 
tian 
Item,  3  yeard  quarter  of  white  holines  fustian 
Item,  2  yeards  halfe  of  4f/,  ribbin 
Item,  halfe  a  yeard  of  white  cotten 
Item,  halfe  a  yeard  of  blacke  taffetie  silke 
Item,  for  another  quarter  of  black  taifetie      ... 
Item,  for  makynge  of  my  sute 
Item,  for  a  ruffe 

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No.  CXXXI. 


MATT.    HUTTON  S    ACCOMPTS. 

Maie  1616.     £li  9s.  lid.     (703.) 

Imprimis,  to  myselfe 

Item,  for  fyringe 

Item,  for  commons  in  Lent 

Item,  for  candles 

Item,  for  suppers  on  fastinge  nights   . . . 

Item,  for  sleevinge  a  shirte 

Item,  for  shoes 

Item,  to  my  landresse 

Item,  to  the  barber 

Item,  for  dressinge  of  my  chamber     ... 

Item,  to  my  sizar 

Item,  for  chamber  rent 


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CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


Item,  for  tviition 

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No.  CXXXTI. 

A     NOTE    OF    PROVYSION. 

June  22,  1616. 

Oxen,  16;   4?.  ^0s.  per  peece 

Sheepe,  100  ;  95.  per  peece 

Calves,  50;   Qs.  Sd.  per  peece 

Mault,  60  quarters;   24s.  per  quarter... 

Eye,  25  quarters  ;   295.  4<d.  per  quarter 

Wheate,  4s.  per  peake 

Lings,  200;  11  10s.  per  100 


ss. 


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No.  CXXXIII. 

MATT,    button's    DEBTS. 

Febr.  2,  1616-7.     (717.) 


Imprimis,  to  John  Haggett 
Item,  to  John  Blackburne 
Item,  to  my  brother  Maulever 
Item,  to  Israeli  Feildinge 
Item,  to  Simon  Douglas 
Item,  to  James  Geslinge 
Item,  to  Jane  Weddall 
Item,  to  George 
Item,  to  my  uncle  Thomas 
Item,  to  my  tutor 


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SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 


217 


Item,  to  Mr.  Allured 
Item,  to  Mr.  Gears 
Item,  to  Sicilay 
Item,  to  George  Stott 
Item,  to  Richard  Slator 
Item,  to  John  Ward 
Item,  to  William  Hethfeild 
Item,  to  Robin  Guy 

Febr.  2,  1616. 


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LETTER  OXXXIV. 


A    COPPIE    OF    MY    LETTER    TO    MR.  DEANE    OF    YORKE. 

Julie  8,  1617.     (706.) 

Sir,  I  must  and  doe  acknowledg,  as  I  ame  a  poore  sonne  of  a 
Levite,  that  yt  had  becomd  me  eare  now  (yf  I  held  not  some  par- 
ticulars of  my  poore  estate  of  you)  to  have  tendred  the  dutye  that 
I  doe  owe  unto  your  hollie  trybe :  but  my  place  of  beeing  alder- 
man in  thys  poore  towne  of  Richmond,  wheare  I  dwell,  hath  pre- 
vented dyvers  iutented  tymes  which  I  had  purposed  to  have  way  ted 
on  you.  I  would  entreate  you  that  myne  attendance  may  be 
acceptable  in  the  assyse  weeke,  at  which  tyme  I  doubt  not  but  to 
gyve  you  contentment  for  such  leases  as  I  hould  of  you  ;  beeing  a 
greate  part  of  the  portion  which  my  deare  father  left  unto  my 
selfe  and  manye  of  my  lyttle  selves.  I  have  noe  reason  to  press 
you  for  extraordinarye  favoure,  bycause  I  have  not  deserved  any- 
thing of  you,  but  to  be  used  as  you  use  others ;  and  I  cannot 
doubt  of  that,  bycause  I  heare  of  your  true  worth  everye  way  : 
humblye  thanking  God  even  for  the  glorye  of  hys  word,  and  the 
good  of  that  church,  that  he  hath  sent  such  an  one  amongst  us. 
God  is  my  wyttnes  that  I  speake  yt  without  adulation,  yt  beeing 
a  thing  very  farre  from  my  playne  dysposition ;  and  I  doe  detest 
yt  either  in  myselfe  or  anye.      I  doe  eftsoones  entreate    your 


218  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

favoure  for  thys  tyme  prefyxed,  at  which  tyme  (God .  wyHing) 
I  wyll  attend  you  ;  tyll  when,  and  then,  and  always, 

I  rest,  &c.^^ 
To  M'-.  Deane  of  Yorke. 

Julie  8,  1617. 


LETTER  CXXXV. 

WILL.    KYTTSOn's    note,    OF    YORKE,    FOR    MY    WATCHES. 

Aug.  19,  1617.     (708.) 

Sir,  Ther  is  which  is  in  my  hooke,  for  the  silver  clocke  and 
your  littell  watche  for  half  the  yeare,  three  shillings  ;  and  for  this 
clocke,  for  the  larum  springe,  which  I  made  new,  10s.,  or  els 
what  your  worship  theuketh  in  different  for  it ;  and  for  the  dress- 
inge  of  the  clocke  :   and  this  is  all. 

Will.  Kyttson. 

August  this  19"",  1617. 


No.  CXXXVI. 

THE  SPEECH  OF  SIR    TIMOTHY  HUTTON  UPON  HIS  BEING  ELECTED 
ALDERMAN    OF    THE    CORPORATION    OF    RICHMOND. 

In  1617  or  1629. 

May  ytt  please  you  M"^  Recorder,  you  my  breethren,  and  all 
you  of  thys  Corporation. 

Confessio. — I  cannot  but  ingeniouslye  confess,  and  I  doe  and 
wyll  thankfully  acknowledge,  that  thys  is  nott  the  fyrst  tyme 
that  I  have  tasted  of  your  favoures  in  choosing  and  electing  me 

*'  Tl)is  copy  is  written  on  the  back  of  a  letter  addressed  (but  not  in  Sir 
Timothy's  hand)  "  To  the  right  wor"  S''  Conyers  Darcye,  Knight,  at  Hornebye 
Castle."  The  paper  contains  also  notes,  in  Sir  Timothy's  writing,  of  magistrate- 
business  ;  and,  in  particular,  a  memorandum  that  "  Prox.  Sess'  apud  Rich- 
mond, Satterday  come  sennett,  to  putt  in  sewartyes  for  peace,  &c.,  especiallye 
toAvards  Edward  Hutchinson  and  Jane  Granger  of  Brunton,  and  John  Rimer  of 
Ainderbie  Steaple."  We  have  here  in  all  probability  the  father  or  grandfather 
of  Rymer,  the  collector  of  the  Fcedera. 


SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  219 

to  thys  place  of  government,  though  altogether  unfytt  and  un- 
worthye  to  sustayn  and  beare  thys  burthen  ;  and  I  am  the  more 
induced  {mducfio)  to  insyst  of  myne  owne  unworthynes  and 
weakenes,  both  m  regard  of  the  defects  which  I  know  in  myselfe, 
as  allsoe  in  the  effects  of  your  favoures  which  I  have  observed 
from  you  in  thys  election  ;  for  I  doe  nott  think  {7ion  opinor) 
that  any  have  beene  chosen  to  thys  place  upon  a  harder  election 
than  ytt  hath  prooved  to  my  lott,  which  I  must  stronglye  presume 
to  proceed  out  of  your  judgements  of  my  weakenes ;  whearein  I 
doe  nott  condemne  you,  neither  can  excuse  myselfe,  butt,  that 
I  may  use  the  words  of  S'.  Paule  with  reverence,  "  I  am  that 
I  am,  and  I  hope  that  thatt  which  is  in  me  is  not  in  vayne," 

Ignorantia. — I  am  nott  ygnorant  of  the  weyghtynes  of  the 
execution  of  thys  place,  whearein  yf  I  should  only  cast  myne 
eye  upon  my  selfe,  I  could  nott  butt  be  alltogether  dyscoradged 
to  undertake  ytt ;  especyallye  ytt  beeing  my  lott  to  succeed  and 
speake  after  hym  whoe  soe  worthylye  hath  dyschardged  the 
same. 

Inwcatio. — I  doe  call  heaven  and  earth  to  wyttnes  that  I  doe 
hate  flatterie  as  the  synne  of  wytchcraft,  and  I  doe  appe^le  unto 
you  all  (especyallye  unto  the  most  judicious),  yf  theare  weare 
ever  any  synce  the  fyrst  incorporating  of  thys  corporation  whoe 
hathe  more  bestowed  hys  mynd  and  meanes  for  the  good  thereof 
then  he  whoe  hath  ruled  and  spoke  last  ;  and  yett  how  ytt  hath 
beene  formerlye  requyted  I  spare  and  am-unwylling  to  sj)eake. 

Scio. — I  know  that  most  of  you  suppose  that  thys  speach 
myght  welbe  spared  ;  butt,  yf  hearein  I  doe  shew  my  weakenes, 
I  doe  content  myselfe  the  better,  in  that  your  judgements  of  my 
weaknes  is  heerein  the  more  generallye  to  be  approved. 

Confirmatio. — And  that  I  may  yett  a  lyttle  farther  confyrme 
your  judgements  of  me  and  my  weakenes,  I  say.  Here  I  am, 
heere  chosen ;  and  upon  necessarie  consequence  I  must  collect 
that  I  was  elected  agaynst  the  myndes  of  the  one  halfe  (nay,  all 
most  the  better  halfe)  of  all  your  companies.  I  protest  {protes- 
tatio)  that  I  doe  nott  speake  thys  either  to  arrogate  anything  to 
myselfe,  which  I  cannott ;  or  to  surrogate  anything  from  hym 
with  whome  I  was  propounded,  which  I  wyll  nott ;  butt  onlie  to 
alledge  ytt,  that  either  you  or  I  myght  make  use  thereof.  Noe 
one  thing  dyscouradgeth  me  soe  much  as  that  I  was  chosen  as 
ytt  weare  agaynst  your  wylls. 


220  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC 

Attamen. — Notwithstanding,  I  doe  the  more  wyllynglye  and 
cheerefullye  content  myselfe  to  take  thys  burthen  upon  mee, 
bycause  that  I  shall  have  soe  good  assystance  both  of  you  M"". 
Recorder,  and  of  you  my  breethren,  whose  integretye  and  suffy- 
eyencye  is  soe  well  knowne  to  us  all,  and  for  which  I  doe  and 
must  acknowledg  that  I  have  beene  heeretofore  behoulden  unto 
you. 

Ohservatio. — Synce  the  fyrst  tyme  that  I  came  amongst  you, 
my  cheefest  observation  hath  beene  thys,  the  meane  estimation  of 
the  magystrate  amongst  you  ;  and  I  canuott  conjecture  how  thatt 
should  come  up  and  grow,  butt  by  too  long  continewance  of  too 
much  remyssenes. 

Deo  teste. — God  is  my  wyttnes,  I  speake  nott  thys  in  any 
hyght  of  mynde,  which  is  contrarye  to  my  nature  and  playne 
dysposition,  butt  that  I  could  wyshe  that  a  better  respect  myght 
be  had  of  whome  soever  heereafter  should  be  chosen  to  thys 
plase  ; 

Honor. —  For  as  I  hould  ytt  an  honor  even  to  the  best  that 
shall  ever  be  chosen  unto  thys  office  (which  I  doe  now  unworthi- 
lye  susteyne),  soe  I  doe  hould  ytt  as  greate  a  dyslionor  even  to 
the  meanest  that  shalbe  chosen  thereunto  yf  he  be  nott  respected, 
as  by  the  place  is  requyred. 

PrincipaUa. — The  cheifest  things  which  the  magystrate  ought 
to  respect  ar  butt  twoe  :  to  cherysh  the  good,  and  to  punysh  the 
bad.  Howbeytt,  both » these  ar  to  be  don  with  discretion,  which 
otherwyse  is  called  judgement. 

Commendatio. — As  I  canuott  commend  hym,  whomesoever  he 
be,  that  desyreth  and  plotteth  for  thys  place  ;  soe  I  cannott  prayse 
hym  whoe,  yf  he  be  fayrelye  elected  thereunto,  shall  refuse  ytt : 
for  I  doe  suppose  there  are  nott  any  of  you,  my  breethren,  but 
for  your  abylytyes  may  well  undergoe  ytt  ;  and  though  many 
of  us  may  lack  learning,  and  though  some  may  be  michanicall 
and  tradesmen  (as  many  corporations  have),  yett,  God  be 
thanked,  wee  have  some  amongst  us  whoe  are  learned  both  in 
the  lawes  and  other  learning,  yea,  I  say,  as  learned  in  both  as 
any  corporation  that  I  know  hath  ;  and  therefore  ytt  is  noe  im- 
putation nor  dyscoradgement  for  any  of  us  to  be  nescient  in 
those  sciences  whearein  Avee  weare  never  proficient. 

Docere. — I  know,  that  yf  I  should  take  upon  me  to  teach  any 
man  heare  hys  dutye   (you  beeing  so   well   experienced  in   the 


SIR    TIMOTHY    BUTTON.  221 

same),  yt  weare  to  houlcl  a  seave  to  the  sonne  ;  and  you  myglit 
justlye  answer  me,  (the  greatenes  of  my  place  eonsydered,)  that 
yt  weare  best  for  me  to  looke  unto  myselfe,  Avhich  I  shall 
endevour  to  performe  by  the  best  meanes  that  I  can,  and 
whearein  I  shall  entreate  your  freindlye  assystance. 

Ohsecratio. — And  I  would  entreate  you  all,  yea,  the  meanest 
of  you  all,  that  yf  you  either  know  or  heare  that  I  doe  wrono- 
unto  any  man,  that  you  would  charitablye  tell  me  of  ytt,  rather 
then  malytiouslye  dyvulge  ytt,  for  ytt  is  too  common  a  condition 
in  too  many  to  be  too  credulous. 

Conclusio. — Butt,  seeing  the  tyme  is  soe  farre  spent,  and  I 
would  nott  offend  both  in  dystastfullnes  and  tediousnes,  my 
desyre  beeing  nott  to  be  guyltye  of  either,  I  wyll  heere  abrupt- 
lye  end,  entreating  you  all  nott  to  take  thatt  with  the  left  hand 
which  is  offered  with  the  ryght. 


LETTER  CXXXVII. 

HENRY    MUDD    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

12  Feb.  1617-8. 

Right  worshipfull,  my  humbell  deutie  remembred  :  gevinge  you 
most  hartie  thankes  for  your  greate  love  and  care  you  have  to 
me  and  myne  ;  but  especiallye  for  my  wife  yesterdaye  to  bested 
hur,  which  shall  not  be  forgotten,  God  willing.  And,  for  my 
Sonne,  that  youre  care  is  so  much  over  him  mackes  me  so  much 
bound  that  my  heart  can  not  utter  that  which  I  ought  to  do 
unto  so  lovinge  a  freind,  nather  am  I  abell  to  requite  that  great 
good  will ;  but  I  trust  Grod  will  macke  you  requitall  ather  to 
you  or  youres.  For  yesterday,  I  did  not  knowe  of  that  kindnes 
when  I  was  with  you  to  geve  you  thanckes ;  so  I  besich  you  to 
pardon  my  necklegence  :  besiching  God  to  sende  you  comforth 
of  those  thinges  you  would  have  comforth  of,  and  me  to  be 
thanckfull  to  those  freinds  I  have.  So  I  tacke  my  leave,  this 
12  of  Febreuarye,  1617. 

Yours  in  all  deutie, 

Henrye  !Mudd. 


222  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


No.  CXXXVIII. 

A  GENERALL  ACQUYTTANCE  FROM  HUTTON  GREGORIE. 

7  Sep.  1618.   (866.) 

Memorandum  that  I,  Hutton  Gregorie,  of  Kingston-upon- 
Hidl,  within  the  countye  of  the  same  towne,  marehant,  have  by 
these  presents  remised,  released,  and  for  me,  myne  heyres  and 
executors,  perpetuallye  quite  claymed  unto  Sir  Tymothe  Hutton 
of  Maske,  knight,  all  manner  of  actions,  as  well  reall  as  perso- 
nall,  suites,  quarrels,  debtes,  executions,  accompts,  trespasses,  and 
demaunds  which  I,  the  sayd  Hutton  Gregorie,  myne  heyres  and 
executors,  have  had,  or  myght  or  ought  to  have,  against  the  same 
Sir  Tymothie  Hutton,  by  anye  manner  of  cause  or  collour,  from 
the  beginninge  of  the  world  till  the  daye  of  the  date  of  these 
presents.  In  witness  wheareof  I  have  heare  unto  sett  my  hand 
and  seale,  the  seaventh  day  of  September,  in  the  yeare  of  the 
reygne  of  our  Soveraygne  Lord  James,  by  the  grace  of  God 
kinge  of  England,  France,  and  Ireland  the  xv"',  and  of  Scotland 
the  li'*^.  per  me,  Hutton  Gregorie. 

Sealed  and  delivered  in  the  presence  of  us  : 

Tho  :   Hutton   [of  Poppleton\. 
Henry  Apleton. 
William  Hutchinson. 


LETTER   CXXXIX. 

MR.    ALURED    [OF    TRINITY    COLL.    CAMBRIDGE,    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY 
HUTTON,    CONCERNING    PHILIP    HUTTON,    HIS    3d.    SON.] 

Julie  7,  1619. 

Sir,  Although  I  could  not  heare  from  you  verbally,  yett  really 
I  did  ;  for  the  carrier  brought  me  vii^'  x^  To  satisfie  you  herein, 
I  have  sent  you  this  quarter's  bills,  whose  suitt  and  a  pair  of 
hose  have  made  it  the  bigger.  I  pray.  Sir,  take  it  not  unkindly 
that    I    have    commited    your    son    to    M"".  Whincop :    I  did    it 


SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  223 

partly  upon  your  especiall  liking  of  him,  and  especially  for  that 
I  shall  have  occasion  to  be  from  home  all  this  vacation.  If  he 
can  perswade  your  son  (which  I  could  never  doe)  to  leave 
throwing  the  harr,  and  football,  (exercises  unfitt  for  his  body,)  I 
hope  he  will  not  doe  much  amiss.  I  am  content  that  he  should 
Jieep  still  over  me,  and  I  will  be  as  carefull  over  him  as  ifs  pos- 
sible for  good  advise  to  prevaile.  Thus,  praying  for  his  good  and 
your  content,  I  rest 

Yours  in  his  best  sirvice, 

Ben.  Alured. 

Tn.  Coll.  July  7,  1619. 


No.  CXL. 


PHYLLYP  HUTTON  S  ACCOMPTS. 

Christmas  and  the  Ladieday,  1619-20. 
April  26,  1620. 

Imprimis,  coales  this  quarter 

For  1 6  fasting  nights 

For  candles  and  paper 

For  a  collor     ... 

At  his  going  to  Eli  to  his  friends ^^     ... 

For  mending  his  liuning   ... 

For  2  new  bands 

For  his  first  Acts  bever    ... 

Shooes  and  shoostrings 

For  dressing  and  mending  his  hatt  diverse  tymes  . . . 

A  pair  of  gloves  and  a  girdle 

For  stuff,  and  mending  his  clothes 

Mending  stockings 

Given  to  him  in  money 

Ursine^s  Oatechisme 

Bradshaw  upon  the  Sacrament 

Landress  and  bedmaker    ... 

3  weekes'  commons  and  a  halfe  in  the  towne  in  Lent 

Commons  and  siseing  in  the  colledg   ... 

**  See  above,  p.  16  &  17. 


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Chamber 
Tuition 

Sum.  tot.    £1  Qs.  4d. 

Remained  of  the  71.  10s,  received  at  Xtmas 

Remainder  due  to  me  now 


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PHYLLYP    HUTTON's    ACCOMPTS. 

Betwixt  Ladieday  and  Midsummer,  1620.     (330.) 

Imprimis,  for  3  weekes**  commons  in  Lent  in  the        £    s.    d. 
towne     ...  ...  ...  ...  0  16     6 

Item,  for  1 7  fasting  nights  ...  ...  086 

Item,  for  2  pair  of  new  shooes  and  strings,  and 

for  mending  old        ...  ...  ...  084 

Item,  for  a  pair  of  new  stockings,  and  mending 

old 
Item,  for  candles 
Item,  for  a  knife 
Item,  letters  caring  to  London 
Item,  given  him  for  severall  uses... 
Item,  for  girdle,  points,  gloves,  and  a  collor  ... 
Item,  for  paper  and  a  paper  booke 
Item,  bands  and  cuifs,  and  3  handkircheiffs  . . . 
Item,  for  a  bason 
Item,  landress  and  woman 
Item,  for  a  new  suite  of  apparrel  of  watered  pa- 
ragon, all  things  provided  ...  ...  240 

Item,  for  another  new  doublet  of  peropus,  and 

mending  his  old  breches  and  go wne,  &;c.    ...  10     2 

Item,  commons  and  siseing  in  the  hall  ...  2  16     9  ob. 

Tuition  and  chamber  ...  ...  ...  0   18     6 

Sum.  totalis  ,£9   lOs.  hd.  ob. 
Due  to  me  since  the  last  quarter  ...  1    19     .5 

Received  May  8  ...  ...  7  10     0 

Due  to  me  now  ...  ...  ...  3  19  10  ob. 

T.  Wh. 
Phill.   Hutton. 


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SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  225 

LETTER  CXLII. 

TIM.    HUTTON,^^    MY    KYNSMAN. 

June  29,  1620. 
R[GHT     WoRSHIPFULL, 

My  humble  duty  remembred ;  with  my  thankfulhiesse  for 
your  late,  as  yet,  undeserved  favor  and  helpe  in  the  tyme  of 
my  greate  nede ;  with  my  day  lye  prayer  to  the  Almighty  for 
your  reward,  and  contynuall  health  and  hapjines,  to  his  best 
will  and  pleasure.  May  it  please  you  to  pardon  my  bouldnes 
in  that  I  ame  constrayned  to  trouble  you  by  reason  of  my 
myssefortune,  as  I  understand  by  my  deare  ffreind  M'.  Robert 
Foi't  you  are  fully  made  acquaynted  with ;  whose  love  hath  ben 
such  to  me  that,  unlesse  he  had  byn  ordayned  of  God  to  worke 
my  good,  beinge  to  me  a  straynger,  I  can  see  no  reasson  that 
I  should  receve  such  kindnesses  from  him  as  I  have  obtyned,  in 
somuch  that  they  have  semed  to  savor  more  lyker  the  deedes  of 
a  ffather  then  a  ffrinde  ;  wherby  he,  to  worke  my  peace  and 
quiett,  hath  taken  most  of  my  debtes  upon  him  selfe,  and  dis- 
burssed  much  mony  for  me,  and  ordered  althinges  in  that  forme, 
beinge  a  man  of  good  cappassitie,  that,  with  the  help  which  I 
understand  he  did  wright  unto  you  to  be  pleassed  to  doe  for  me 
in  the  behalfe  of  my  good,  which  to  my  joy,  as  I  understand, 
you  have  promysed  to  doe  for  me,  I  may  be  rayssed  from 
nothing  to  be  able  to  repaye  your  former  deede,  worthey  of  me 
to  be  remembred,  and  lykewisse  lyve  of  my  selfe  to  the  rejoyse- 
ment  of  all  my  good  ffreindes,  and  especyally  not  forget  from 
whence  all  my  good  cometh ;  the  tyme  being  very  short  which 
muste  establish  my  hoppes,  which  only  relye  upon  your  helpe 
in  the  forme  M'.  Fort  hath  shewed  your  worship,  the  which  I 
refer  to  your  worthy  consyderacion.  And  so,  as  my  bounden 
duty  commandeth,  I  shall  never  seasse  to  pray  to  the  Allmighty 
God,  whoe  is  the  sender  of  all  goodnes  upon  his  servants,  to  mul- 

"  This  Timothy  Hutton  was  the  son  of  Samuel  Hutton,  and  the  grandson  of 
Robert  Hutton,  DD.,  Rector  of  Houghton-le-Skerne,  near  Darlington,  who  was 
a  younger  brother  of  D''.  Matthew  Hutton,  Arclil)islio|i  of  York.  — \  Mic/kk  I 
Fryer.'] 

Q 


226  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

typly  and  increasse  your  worship  with  all  the  contents  of  this 
world  and  the  joyes  of  the  etternall  worlde  to  come  ;  and  thus  I 
sease  at  thes  tyme  to  trouble  your  worship  any  ifurther,  humbly 
desiring  your  answer.  From  the  Blew  Ancker  in  Feld  Lane, 
London,  June  the  29*^  day. 

Your  lovinge  servant,  and  at  your  worship's  command. 

TlMOTHIE     HUTTON. 


No.  CXLIIL 

PHILLYP    mutton's    ACCOMPTS. 

From  Mydsomer  to  Michaellmas,  1620. 


£     S.     d. 


Imprimis,  commons  and  siseing    . . . 
A  new  hatt 

... 

8 
0 

16 

8 

6ob, 
6 

A  new  shirt  and  band  and  cufFe   . . . 

•  •  > 

0 

10 

0 

Taylor  and  draper 

Coales  and  winter  provision 

Landress  and  woman  that  dresses  the  chamber 

0 
0 
0 

4 

10 

5 

8 
0 
6 

Shooes 

0 

8 

1 

Gloves 

0 

3 

0 

Stockings  and  shooetyes 

For  paper,  &c. 

Given  him  money  at  several  tymes 

18  fasting  nights 

0 
0 
0 
0 

6 
1 

12 
9 

6 
4 
6 
0 

Tuition  and  chamber  ... 

0 

18 

6 

«     Summa  totalis      £8  14s.  Id.  oh. 

Remained  in  myne  hands  sine  the  quarter 
before,  41.  2s.  2d.  ob. ;  and  that  which 
1  received  sine,  9^.  10s.  :  in  all,  13?. 
12s.  lOd.  ob. 

Out  of  which  the  former  total  sum  deduct- 
ed, rem.  of  his  in  my  hand  41.  18s.  9d. 

Tho.  Whincop. 


SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 


227 


No.  CXLIV. 

FROM    CHRISTMAS    TO     LADYE    DAYE,    AND    BETWYXT     LADY    DAY 
AND    MYDSUMMER. 

1620-1,     (332.) 

Phillip  Hutton  betwixt  Christmas  and  Ladie  day,  1621. 

£    S.     d. 
The  totall  sum  of  his  bill  was       ...  ...  6     2     8  oh. 

To  which  being  added  that  which  was  due  to  me 

since  the  quarter  grace  ...  ...  364 


Sum  is 

Received  May  1 6,  1 622 

Rem.  till  the  jear  following  for  him 


9     9     0  ob. 
9  15     0 

0     5  11  ob. 


Betwixt  Ladie  day  and  Midsummer,  1622, 

£   s.     d. 

Commons  and  siseing ,. .  ...  ...  8  18     lob. 

Fasting  nights  ...  ...  , . ,  090 

Bookes       ...  ...  ...  ...  0     .5  10 

Glover        ...  ...  ...  ...  0     2     0 

Shooes        ...  ...  ...  ...  0     9     8 

Given  him  for  his  acts  in  the  schooles,  for  a 

bever,  and  at  other  severall  tymes  ...  Oil     4 

Physicke  while  he  was  sicke         ...  ...  0     3     9 

New  hatt  and  band     ...  ...  ...  084 

Landress  and  woman  ...  ...  ...  060 

Bands,  cuffs  and  handkirchs  ...  ...  0     4     0 

Suite  of  apparall  ...  ...  ...  298 

Points  and  garters  and  stockings ...  ...  0160 

Chamber  and  tuition  ...  ...  ...  0  18     6 


Sum.  tot.     £11  2s.  2<^.  ob. 
Deduct  the  remainder  since  last  year    ... 
Remains  now  due  to  me 


0     5  11  ob. 
10  14     2ob. 


TlIO.    WlIINCOP. 

Q  2 


228  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

LETTER  OXLV. 

TIM.    HUTTON,    MY    KYNSMAN,    TO    JO.    ELLOW.^* 

Maie  31,  1621. 

KiNDE  John  Ellow,  my  best  love  and  harty  commondationes 

remembred  unto  you.     This  is  to  certifie  you  that  I  have  receved 

your  letter,  and  M^  Forte  another  fFrom  Sir  Timothie,  for  the 

which  I  give  you    many  thoussand  thankes;  intreating  you  to 

deliver  M^  Forte's  letter  to  Sir  Timothie,  and  to  fiirther  me  in 

my  afFares  :    thus  desiring  your  love  to  speake  to  Sir  Timothie  for 

me  to  stand  my  frend  at  this  time,  and  I  shall  be  mad  for  ever, 

and  my  fortunes  raised  againe.     M^  Forte  and  his   wife   and 

Susan  remembers  their  loves  to  you.     Soe  I  end,  leavinge  you  to 

the  protection  of  Allmightie  God.     Frome  the  Blew  Ancker  in 

Feld  Lane,  London,  May  the  SI""  day. 

Your  loving  ffrind  to  his  power  in  what  I  may, 

Timothie  Hutton. 

To  his  assured  and  very  lovinge  ffrind,  John  Ellow,  dewelling 
with  Sir  Timothie  Hiitton,  knight,  at  Maske,  deliver  this. 


LETTER  CXLVL 

TIM.    HUTTON,    MY    KYNSMAN,    TO    JO.    ELLOW. 
June  14,  1621. 

Kind  John  Elow,  my  best  love  and  harty  commendations 
remembred  unto  you ;  hopping  of  your  good  health,  with  all  the 
rest  of  my  good  ftrinds.  This  is  to  certyfie  you  the  cause  of  my 
wrighting  unto  you  is  to  intreat  you  to  speake  to  Sir  Timothie 
for  me  ;  and  that  he  would  be  pleased  to  doe  somthing  for  me  at 
this  tyme,  for  I  never  had  more  ned  in  all  my  lyfe.  I  doe  owe 
M^  Fort  dClO.  12s.,  which  doth  greave  me  very  sore,  he  having 
layd  out  the  most  of  it  out  of  his  purse  to  keppe  me  from  prisson ; 
and  now  he  will  doe  no  more,  and  I  cannot  blame  him,  for,  had 
not  he  bene,  I  had  ben  dead  in  prisson  afore  now.  Kind  John 
Elow,  speake  to  Sir  Timothie  that  he  would  be  pleased  to  lend 

^*  The  confidential  servant  of  Timothy  Hutton. 


SIR    TIMOTHY    BUTTON.  22.9 

me  £10  li2s.  to  pay  him,  and  I  shall  thinke  my  selfe  happy,  and 
be  bound  to  pray  for  his  worship,  and  in  tyme  pay  his  worship 
agayne.  Soe  I  would  intreat  you  to  showe  Sir  Timothie  this 
letter,  wherby  he  may  understand  my  wants  at  this  tyme,  for 
they  wear  never  more.  No  more  at  this  tyme,  but,  intreating 
your  answer,  I  commit  you  to  the  protection  of  Allmighty  God. 
From  the  Blew  Anchor  in  Fild  Lane,  London,  June  the  14"*. 
Susan  hath  sent  you  a  token  for  a  remembrance,  of  hir  owne 
makinge.  Your  loving  ffrind  to  his  power, 

Timothie  Hutton. 


LETTER  CXLVIL 

ROB.    ALLENSON    OF    CROFT     [tO     SIR     TIMOTHY     ^UTTOn],     CON- 
CERNING   GRACE    JOHNSON,    A    REPUTED    WITCH. 

June  24,  1621. 

Sir,  as  unacquainted  I  salute  you,  &c.  I  received  a  letter 
from  your  worshipe,  wherein  your  worshipe  willed  mee  to  certifie 
your  worshipe  of  the  discretion  of  one  Grace  Johnson,  who  is 
reputed  to  be  a  witch  :  these  are  therefore  to  let  you  understand 
of  her  behaviour  (in  part),  as  this  bearer  will  let  your  worshipe 
understand  in  toto.  Her  manner  of  livinge  is  and  hath  beene 
so  bad  that  all  the  towne  would  verie  gladly  be  rid  of  her,  for 
she  doth  nothing  (allmost)  but  curse  some  or  other  both  day 
and  night,  as  well  when  she  is  alone  as  with  company,  even  the 
best  as  well  as  the  worst ;  and  for  those  whom  she  doth  accuse 
of  slanderinge  her  for  a  witch,  they  doe  utterly  deny  it,  and  saith 
that  she  is  wont  (because  she  got  some  thinge  hereto  fore)  to 
accuse  allmost  any  that  she  thinkes  to  get  some  thinge  out ;  and 
as  for  her  religion,  we  know  it  not,  for  she  never  did  receive  the 
Communion  this  3  yeres,  neither  came  at  the  church  but  2 
Sundayes  (since  she  got  this  busines  to  goo  about),  because  that 
M^  Hopper  did  aske  her  when  she  was  at  the  church.  And  this 
much  breifly  I  thought  good  to  let  your  worshipe  understand, 
and  this  bearer  will  relate  it  more  at  large. 

Your  worshipp's  to  command, 

lloBEUT    AlLENSON. 
Croft,  June  24,  1C21. 


230 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


No.   CXLVIII. 

SAM.    HUTTON's    ACQUYTTANCE    FOR    £10. 

NOVEMB.  26,  ANNO  Do.  1622. 

Receaved  att  the  hands  of  John  Ellye  the  some  of  tenn  pownds, 
due  out  of  a  yearlye  annuitye  from  the  right  worshipfull  Sir 
Tymothye  Hut  ton,  knight,  at  Martinmas  last  past.  I  say  re- 
ceaved, 

By  me,  Samuel  Hutton. 


No.  CXLIX. 

PHYLLYP    mutton's    ACCOMPTS. 

From  Mydsomer  to  Michaellmas,  1622. 

Money  given  him  for  fasting  night  suppers,  and 

severall  other  occasions 
For  points  and  a  girdle,  &c. 
For  paper  and  candles,  and  3  pair  of  sockes 
Shooes 

Stockings,  &c. 
The  taylor  and  draper 
The  landress  and  woman 
Commons  and  siseing 
In  his  sicknesse  given  to  his  phisitian,  &;c.  in  part 
Tuition  and  chamber  ... 


(324.) 

£   s. 

d. 

0  15 

6 

0     4 

4 

0     3 

8 

0     6 

8 

0     5 

6 

0     4 

2 

0     6 

0 

4     3 

3ob 

0  15 

0 

0  18 

6 

Sum.  tot. 


Due  to  me  before 
Received  Oct.  11 
Remaines  in  my  hand 


8     2  7 

10  14  2 

20     0  0 

1     3  3 


Tho.  Whincop. 


SIR  TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  231 

No.  CL. 

PHYLLYPP    HUTTON's    ACCOMPTS. 

Betwyxt  Michaellmas  and  Christmas,  1622. 

£    s.  d. 
The  totall  sum  of  your  bill,  with  your  new  gowne, 

is             ...                ...                ...                ...         10  16  4  ob. 

I  have  already  received                  ...                 ...           6  17  6  ob. 

Remaines  due  to  me  now              ...                 ...           3  18  10 

Tho.  Whixcop. 
Phillip  Hutton. 


LETTER  OLI. 

WILL.    ALDBROUGH    [XO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON]. 

Januarie  15,  1622-3. 
RyGHT    WoRSIIlPPFUL. 

Forasmuch  as  I  am  not  able  in  bodye  to  come  to  your  sessions 
at  this  instant,  having  formerly  bene  att  the  sessions  at  Hems- 
ley  ;  therfore  I  thought  fitt  to  signifie  unto  you,  thatt  yf  yt 
stand  with  your  good-likinge,  that,  according  to  his  Majestie's 
orders,  there  shall  be  a  division  of  our  selves  into  sundry  wapen- 
takes for  the  spede  preventing  and  remidinge  of  the  dearth 
of  corne  and  other  victualls  according  to  the  said  orders,  I  shall 
be  redye  for  the  spede  execucion  of  the  said  service  to  joyne 
with  those  of  our  assosiats  as  you  shall  think  fitting  for  the  exe- 
cucion of  the  said  service  within  the  wapentake  of  Hallikell  and 
Hangeast,  upon  notice  of  the  tyme  and  place  \A-hich  I  thinke 
fitting  afore  your  departure  from  sessions  to  be  sett  downe,  and 
notice  therof  to  be  geven  to  the  head  constable  now  present  at 
your  sessions.  The  place  I  think  fitting  to  be  att  Burueston;  the 
tyme  as  shortly  as  you  can  ;  the  charge  to  bee  that  the  pettie  con- 
stable and  bring  {sic)  a  note  of  all  brewsters  lycensed  and  lycensed 
maltsters,  and  the  malsters  to  be  present,  all  badgers  and  ingross- 


232 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


ers  of  corne,  and  whatt  further  clerections  you  will  sett  dovvne. 
Thus,  upon  notice  of  your  pleasures  hearein,  I  will  be  redye  to 
the  best  of  my  knowledg  to  do  his  Majesty  service,  both  now 
and  all  other  tymes. 

Yours  in  all  kindenes, 

Will.  Aldiburgh.^^ 
Ellingthorp,  Januarij   15,  1622. 

William  Rey  of  Kirbie  super  Moram,  I  hold  him  not  fitting 
to  tiple,  for  that  he  doth  harbour  by  a  whole  weak  to  gether 
contemptououse  persons  to  the  law ;  therefore  I  pray  you  lett 
him  be  disallowed  by  sessions. 


No.  OLII. 


PHYLLYP  HUTTON  S  ACCOMPTS. 


Betwixt  Christmas  and  Ladie  day,  1622-,3.     (377.) 


Commons  and  siseing  in  the  hall 

Coales  and  candles,  &c.     ... 

Fasting  nightes 

Senecaes  workes 

Money  given  him  upon  severall  occasions 

Lining,  eapps,  &c. 

2  pair  of  stockinges 

A  pair  of  gamashes,  and  a  pair  of  slippers 

A  pair  bootes  and  shooes 

The  taylor's  bill  for  his  cloake  and  other  thinges 

Chamber 

His  diett  in  his  sickness   ... 

For  phisicke,  and  given  to  the  physitian 

Landress  and  woman 

Tuition 


£   s. 

d. 

5     9 

5 

0  11 

5 

0     7 

0 

0     2 

0 

0  14 

6 

0     4 

3 

0     6 

8 

0     4 

0 

0  12 

9 

2  12 

6 

0     6 

8 

1     3 

1 

1     9 

4 

0     6 

0 

0  13 

4 

Summa  totalis     £15  2s.  lid. 
Of  Ellingthorp,  near  Boroughbridge. — M.  F. 


SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  233 

£    s.     d. 
Remained  in  my  hands  of  the  20?. 

last  quarter  discharged  ...        1      5     6 

Due  to  me  now,  the  rest  ...      13  17     5 

Tho.   Whincop. 


LETTER  CLIII. 

BARTH.    MOORE    [tO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON]. 
Aprill  10,  1623. 

Right  Worshipfull,  my  humble  dutie  remembred  unto 
you,  and  to  your  sonne  M^  Phillip.  I  would  be  very  glad  to 
hear  of  his  recovery ;  and  I  pray  you  certify  him  that  I  toulde 
his  tutor  where  I  meete  him,  and  likewise  of  his  saifty  in  his 
journey,  which  gave  him  great  content.  This  is  to  certify  you 
that  I  am  sore  troubled  with  an  ague  since  my  comming  up  to 
Cambridge,  insomuch  it  hath  coste  me  the  poore  meanes  I  had ; 
therfore  I  would  intreat  your  worshipp  in  this  time  of  extremity 
and  sicknes  to  commisserate  my  case,  and  to  minister  some 
comfort  unto  my  necessities,  and  I  shall  ever  while  I  breath 
have  a  thankefull  acknowledement  of  your  extraordonary  great 
love  towards  me,  and  I  will  not  cease  daily  to  make  mention 
unto  God  for  you  and  yours  in  my  prayers,  for  I  have  nothing 
wherein  I  may  better  proffitt  you  :  and  seing  I  have  received  so 
many  kindnesses  from  you,  and  have  nothing  to  restore  but 
thankes,  as  Seneca  sayd  once,  soe  may  I  say,  memetipsum  tihi 
daho.  And  soe  I  cease ;  but  never  ceassing  to  pray  unto  the 
Lord  to  grant  you  length  of  dayes  in  this  life,  and,  after  this  life, 
eternall  life  in  the  kingdome  of  glory. 

Yours,  or  his  servise  for  ever  to  commaund, 

Bartiio.  Moore. 


234 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 


No.   CLIV. 

THO.    MUDd's    note    OF    ACCOMPTS    FOR    dP109    4s.    8d. 
Aug.  5,  1623. 

August  the  5"',  1623. 
Injirimis,  received  of  M^  Thompson 
7"^  Received  of  the  tennants  of  Barnebie 


4lh 

5th 


Som*' 


DISBURSED. 

August  the  second,  1623. 
AtCundall 

To  a  messenger  from  Bishopthorpe 
For  my  dinner  Munday 
For  my  horse 
For  2  bagges 
For  wine  at  M"".  Dawson"'s 
To  Sir  Gilbert 
To  M^  Mathew       ... 
To  M"^.  Merser 
To  Peeter  Slayter   ... 
To  the  boatman  at  Yorke 
In  peears 
To  John  Pepper 
For  swearing  Sir  Gilbert 
For  2  cloackebaggs 
In  sacke 

For  the  horses  of  Thursday 
To  the  sadler 
In  tobacco 
In  aile     ...  ... 

For  a  booke 

For  wine  at  M^  Kapp"'s 

For  dressing  a  hatt 

To  the  children  at  M'.  Dawson's 

To  the  servants 


£ 

s.    d. 

75 

18     0 

83 

6     8 

109 

4     8 

£ 

s.    d. 

0 

0     6 

0 

0     6 

0 

0     8 

0 

0     2 

0 

0     4 

0 

2     8 

0 

5     0 

4 

0     0 

2 

10     0 

0 

5     0 

0 

0     6 

0 

0     6 

0 

3     4 

0 

0     8 

0 

7     6 

0 

0    6 

0 

0  10 

0 

0     8 

0 

0     4 

0 

0     2 

0 

1     8 

0 

1     0 

0 

0     6 

0 

5     0 

0 

2     8 

SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 


235 


To  M"^.  Dawson  for  wine 

To  M^  Phillipp       ... 

To  M''.  Samuell  Hutton's  tow  sonnes 

For  dinners  and  suppers  upon  Tuesday,  Wed 
densday,  and  Thursday,  and  Fryday  din 
ner 

In  wine  to  M^\  Thornes 

Sent  by  M'.  Maylom 

For  2  bells 

For  M'.  Jackson's  horse 

For  lyning  your  hatt 

For  M^  Pliillipp''s  dinner  upon  Satterday  .. 

To  William  upon  a  note 

For  my  dinner 

To  M^  Bennett 

To  one  for  bringing  a  letter 

To  the  clockmaker  ... 

To  a  j)oore  woman  ... 

For  the  horses 

For  2  bottles  of  wine 

In  tobacco 

In  wine  at  M'.  Tireman's 

To  the  servants  at  Poppleton    ... 

To  the  boatman  at  Yorke 

For  a  show  for  the  gray  nagg  ... 

To  the  servants  at  Goulsbrough 

For  bread 

To  the  schollers  at  M''.  Foster"'s 

To  the  porter  at  Boulton 

To  a  messenger 

To  a  poore  woman  ... 

For  9  peckes  of  peescods 

For  bread 

Som     £30   7s.  Id. 
Paid  to  the  deane  of  Yorke 
Remaining  of  Barnebie  rent  in  my  hands 
Delivered  to  my  ladie 
Remaining  in  my  hands  of  the  151.  18s.  but 

Summa  totair     £109  ^s.  8d. 


9' 


10 


12'^ 


13' 


15* 


th 


16' 


£ 

s.  d. 

0 

5     0 

0 

4     0 

0 

1     6 

0 

4     8 

0 

1     0 

20 

0     0 

0 

0  10 

0 

2     0 

0 

1     6 

0 

1     0 

0 

7     8 

0 

0     8 

0 

0     6 

0 

2     0 

0 

2     0 

0 

0     6 

0 

0     4 

0 

2     2 

0 

0     2 

0 

1     0 

0 

4     3 

0 

0     4 

0 

0     4 

0 

3     4 

0 

1     0 

0 

1     6 

0 

1     0 

0 

0     6 

0 

0     2 

0 

8     0 

0 

3     0 

32 

4  10 

1 

1     7 

45 

10     0 

0 

0     5 

236  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  CLV. 


A    COPIE    OF    MY    LETTER    TO    MR.    RYGGE. 

Aug.  18,  1623.     (328.) 

Sir,  I  suppose  you  are  nott  ygnorant  of  a  match  which  was 
intended  betwyxt  my  maugh^^  Cleburne  hys  eldest  sonne  Ed- 
mund and  my  daughter.  I  doe  protest  unto  you  (in  the  word 
of  truth)  that  the  breach  thereof  is  no  smale  dyscontentment 
unto  me  ;  and  that  I  must  needs  cleare  the  young  gentleman  soe 
farre,  that  there  was  noe  fault  neither  in  hym  selfe  nor  on  hys 
syde,  but  onely  the  dysaffaction  of  my  foolysh  daughter,  whoe  is 
lyke  (and  shall)  to  pay  for  hyr  follye. 

I  understand  that  there  hath  beene  conference  betwyxt  hym 
and  you  touching  hys  sonne  with  your  daughter,  whearein  (yf 
ytt  shall  please  God  that  yt  goe  forward)  I  shall  nott  be  a  lyttle 
glad  that  he  shall  match  with  one  of  such  integretye  as  you  are 
reported  to  be.  Hys  estate  is  fayre,  and  such  as  (with  a  lyttle 
tyme)  will  free  hym  from  all  incombrances  :  and  bycause  I  know 
you  cannott  but  be  desyrous  to  know  them,  I  have  delyvared 
a  note  of  them  unto  my  maugh  (the  bearer  heareof)  which 
he  wyll  shew  you.  As  for  myne  owne  mony,  which  I  have  payd, 
I  wyll  nott  take  one  pennye  for  use,  butt  that  I  may  have  ytt 
upon  one  quarter's  warning  yf  of  necessytye  I  must  requyre  ytt ; 
which  I  thinke  wyll  nott  be  hastely,  for  my  daughter  is  nott 
much  above  fowarteene  yeares  ould.  As  for  other  bonds  which 
I  am  entred  into  for  hym  to  supply  hys  occasions,  I  hope  noe 
reasonable  man  wyll  thinke  ytt  unreasonable  to  desyre  securitye 
for  myne  indemnity e. 

I  wyll  wyllinglye  release  any  interest  that  I  have  in  hys 
estate,  upon  such  securitye  as  shalbe  reasonably e  requyred  ;  and 
that  the  covenants  for  the  good  of  the  chyldren  be  parformed, 
for  I  must  profess  that  I  wyll  never  betray  that  trust  that 
is  reposed  in  others  with  myself  for  them  whylst  I  lyve. 

These  things  performed,  and  that  there  be  an  agreement 
betwyxt  you,  (which  I  beseach  God  to  dyrect  and  bless,)  I 
shalbe  verye  desyrous  that  the  busynes  may  receave  an  overture, 

'^  Brother-in-law. 


SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 


287 


and  wylbe  wylling  to  meate  whensoever  and  whearesoever  you 
or  any  shall  please  to  prefyx.      And  thus  I  rest, 

Your  verrye  loving  freind,  T.   H. 

Marske,  Aug.  18,  1623. 
My  letter  to  Mr.  Rygge, 


No.  CLVI. 

MY    SONNE    JO.    HUTTON's    ACCOMPTS. 
1623.     (321.) 

HUTTON. 

Michaelmas  Quarter. 
Imprimis,  for  turning  his  gowne 
ffor  cloth  for  the  sleeves    ... 
ffor  mending  his  doublet  and  hose 
ffor  mending  his  other  hose 
ffor  mending  his  gowne     ... 
ffor  cloth  for  the  same 
ffor  buttons 
ffor  2  jDair  of  shooes 
ffor  paper 
ffor  batlings     ... 
ffor  washing    ... 
ffor  a  pair  of  stockings 
ffor  inke 

ffor  a  suite  of  apparrell  with  a  single  galowne  lace 
ffor  a  key,  and  mending  his  chest 

Sum    £S   lis.  2d. 

Christmas  Quarter. 
Imprimis,  for  healing  his  throate 
ffor  a  pair  of  shooes  and  soles 
ffor  batlings     ... 
ffor  inke  and  a  paper  booke 
ffor  mending  his  gowne,  and  for  cloth 
ffor  footing  his  stockings,  and  mending  his  doublet 

and  hose 
ffor  ffustain,  2  doz.  of  buttons,  and  sleeving 
ffor  cloth,  hooks  and  eyes,  and  knee-strings 
ffor  altering  his  stuffe  hose,  and  stuff  to  mend  them 


£    s.   d. 


0 

1 

0 

0 

0 

9 

0 

0 

6 

0 

0 

4 

0 

0 

6 

0 

0 

4 

0 

0 

2 

0 

5 

2 

0 

0 

4 

0 

4 

6 

0 

1 

6 

0 

s 

4 

0 

0 

2 

2 

11 

2 

0 

1 

6 

£ 

s. 

d. 

0 

3 

0 

0 

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2 

0 

4 

4 

0 

1 

2 

0 

0 

10 

0 

1 

0 

0 

1 

7 

0 

0 

5 

0 

2 

0 

238 


CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 


£ 

s. 

d. 

iFor  2  doz.  and  an  halfe  of  buttons,  and  fustian   ... 

0 

1 

4 

ffor  facing  for  the  hands,  and  hooks  and  eyes 

0 

0 

6 

ffor  2  yards  3  quarters  of  ffrize  at  2s.  6d. 

0 

6 

10 

ffor  making  his  jerkin,  for  buttons  and  silke 

0 

2 

0 

ffor  making  his  gowne 

0 

1 

0 

ffor  2  pounds  of  candles    ... 

0 

0 

7 

ffor  paper 

0 

0 

4 

ffor  washing     ... 

0 

1 

6 

Sum      £1   145.   lid. 

Lady  Quartee. 

£ 

s. 

d. 

Imprimis,  for  a  pair  of  shooes  and  soles 

0 

3 

8 

Item  for  batlings 

0 

6 

10 

ffor  washing 

0 

1 

6 

ffor  a  pair  of  stockings 

0 

3 

4 

ffor  a  pound  of  candles 

0 

0 

3ob. 

ffor  inke     ... 

0 

0 

2 

ffor  the  hunting  day    ... 

0 

0 

6 

ffor  j)aper  ... 

0 

0 

4 

ffor  mending  his  hose,  and  for  fustian 

0 

0 

9 

ffor  turning  his  sute,  and  dressing  it 

0 

5 

2 

ffor  3  doz.  of  buttons,  and  silke    ... 

0 

1 

5 

ffor  pastboard  and  tape 

0 

0 

3 

ffor  ffacing,  and  say  to  line  the  skirts 

0 

0 

10 

ffor  cloth  and  linnen    ... 

0 

1 

4 

ffor  a  pockett 

0 

0 

2 

ffor  mending  his  gowne,  and  for  cloth 

0 

0 

10 

Sum     £1   8s.  4id.  ob. 

MiDSOMER  Quarter. 

£ 

s. 

d. 

Imprimis,  for  batlings 

0 

5 

6 

Item,  for  washing 

0 

1 

6 

ffor  sweeping  the  schoole,  and  for  birch 

0 

0 

6 

ffor  inke 

0 

0 

2 

ffor  making  3  shirts 

0 

1 

6 

ffor  a  pair  of  shooes            ... 

0 

2 

8 

ffor  soling  and  dressing  his  bootes 

0 

1 

8 

ffor  paper 

0 

0 

4 

ffor  paper 

0 

0 

4 

ffor  mending  his  doublet  and  hose 

0 

0 

10 

ffor  4  doz.  of  the  best  buttons,  and  hookes  and  ( 

3yes 

0 

1 

6 

SIR   TIMOTHY   BUTTON. 


230 


fFor  faceing  for  the  hands,  and  linnen... 

fFor  mending  his  gowne,  and  cloth  for  it 

ffor  a  pair  of  stockings 

ffor  10  ells  of  lockrom  for  3  shirts     ... 

fFor  an  hatband 

ffor  a  pair  of  stockings 

ffor  4  bands  4s,,  and  a  pair  of  garters  3s. 

ffor  a  girdle  T'2d.,  and  a  pair  of  gloves  8d. 

ffor  3  pair  of  ruffes  18d,.  a  dozen  of  points  6d. 


£ 

s. 

d. 

0 

0 

10 

0 

1 

0 

0 

o 
o 

0 

0 

15 

0 

0 

1 

6 

0 

4 

0 

0 

7 

0 

0 

1 

8 

0 

2 

0 

Sum 
Sum  tot. 

Recept.  pra)  man. 
Sic  superest  ... 


£  s.  d. 
2  12  2 
9     6     71 

11     4  101 
1  18     3 


No.  OLVII. 


JOHN   HUTTON's   ACCOMPTS   AT   WINCHESTER,   £20    14.?.   Ad.    oh., 
FROM    MICHAELLMAS    TO    MICHAELLMAS. 


MiCHAELLMAS    QuARTER. 

Imprimis,  for  mendinge  his  apparell 

Item,  for  making  his  jerkin 

Item,  for  a  chest 

Item,  for  3  pownde  of  candles 

Item,  for  quarterage   ... 

Item,  for  inke,  a  psalter,  a  Nowell,  ^^  and 

mer 
Item,  for  a  table  booke  and  inkehorne 
Item,  for  2  yeards  and  halfe  of  indeco  fri 
Item,  for  3  doz,  of  buttons 
Item,  for  silke 


o-ram 


ze 


£  s.    d. 

0  4     0 

0  14 

0  8     0 

0  1     1  ob. 

0  2  10 

0  3     8 

0  1     2 

0  9     2 

0  0     9 

0  0     6 


Sum     £1  12s.  Qd.  ob. 


"  Nowell's  Catechism. 


240  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

Christmas  Quarter. 
Imprimis,  for  inck,  and  a  Dens  et  Rex 
Item,  for  Ovid's  Metamorphosis 
Item,  for  a  Terrence,  and  paper  booke 
Item,  for  mending  his  apparell 
Item,  for  making  his  jerkin,  and  buttons  and  silke 
Item,  for  a  pair  of  shooes... 
Item,  for  a  pair  of  soles    ... 
Item,  for  2  pownde  of  candles 
Item,  for  2  yeards  a  halfe  of  indeco  frize 
Item,  for  a  pair  of  shooes 
Item,  for  a  pair  of  gloves... 

Item,  to  a  phisition  for  looking  on  his  water  twice 
Item,  for  quarterage 
Item,  halfe  a  pownd  of  reasons 
Item,  for  wormeseede,  sugar,  mace,   and  frankin- 

sence  ...  ...  ...  '     ... 

Item,  for  tending  him  12  dayes 

Sum     £l  9s.  Id. 

Lady  Quarter. 
Imprimis,  for  quarterage  ... 
Item,  for  the  hunting  day 
Item,  for  inke 
Item,  for  2  pair  of  soles    ... 
Item,  for  5  yeards  of  paragon 
Item,  for  .3  ownces  of  lace 
Item,  for  3  quarters  of  an  ownce  of  silke 
Item,  for  one  yeard  of  fustian 
Item,  for  a  card  of  buttons 
Item,  for  2  yeards  and  a  halfe  of  ribane 
Item,  for  talFety 
Item,  for  an  ell  of  canvase 
Item,  for  mending  his  hose 
Item,  for  mending  a  pair  of  stockings 
Item,  for  mending  his  hose,  and  for  a  pockett 
Item,  for  footing  a  pair  of  stockings  ... 
Item,  for  mending  his  hose,  and  for  stuffe 
Item,  for  making  his  suite 
Item,  for  fustian 


£ 

s. 

d. 

0 

0 

8 

0 

0 

10 

0 

1 

8 

0 

1 

9 

0 

2 

6 

0 

2 

6 

0 

0 

10 

0 

0 

9 

0 

9 

6 

0 

2 

6 

0 

1 

0 

0 

1 

0 

0 

1 

6 

0 

0 

3 

0 

0 

4 

0 

2 

0 

£ 

s. 

d. 

0 

1 

6 

0 

0 

6 

0 

0 

2 

0 

1 

8 

1 

8 

4 

0 

8 

0 

0 

2 

0 

0 

1 

0 

0 

0 

9 

0 

0 

10 

0 

2 

6 

0 

1 

1 

0 

0 

6 

0 

0 

1 

0 

0 

7 

0 

0 

4 

0 

0 

10 

0 

6 

0 

0 

2 

6 

SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  241 

X     s.    d. 

Item,  for  holmes  fustian    ...                ...  ...  0     3     4 

Item,  for  whalbone  and  pastbord        ...  ...  0     0     6 

Item,  for  paper                  ...                ...  ...  004 

Item,  for  cotton  for  the  suite              ...  ...  053 

Item,  for  a  i^air  of  stockings                ...  ...  0     3     0 

Item,  given  him  at  severall  times  to  pay  London 

carryers  and  other  uses                    ...  ...  066 

Sum      £3  18s.  4r/. 
Mid.  Quarter. 
Imprimis,  for  2  pair  of  shoes 
Item,  for  quarterage 

Item,  for  mendinge  his  hose,  and  for  stuffe 
Item,  for  footing  2  pair  of  stockings  ... 
Item,  for  making  2  shirts 
Item,  for  a  pokkett 

Item,  for  mending  his  hose,  and  for  stuffe 
Item,  for  a  pokkett 
Item,  for  mending  a  pair  of  stockings 
Item,  for  inck,  and  a  paper  booke 
Item,  for  2  pair  of  soles    ... 
Item,  for  a  pair  of  gloves  ... 
Item,  for  2  bands 

Item,  for  a  pair  of  stockings  and  garters 
Item,  for  a  pair  of  gloves 
Item,  for  sweeping  the  schoole 
Item,  for  5  ells  and  a  halfe  of  locaram 
Item,  for  a  hatt 

Item,  for  his  dyett  halfe-a-yeare 
Item,  for  dressing  his  old  hatt 

Sum     £7  18s.  1d. 

Sum.  tot. 

Item,  for  his  dyett  halfe-a-yeare 


£ 

s. 

d. 

0 

5 

4 

0 

1 

6 

e 

0 

0 

7 

0 

0 

8 

0 

1 

0 

0 

0 

3 

0 

0 

7 

0 

0 

3 

0 

0 

3 

0 

1 

2 

0 

0 

10 

0 

0 

8 

0 

2 

8 

0 

7 

0 

0 

1 

0 

0 

0 

2 

0 

7 

4 

0 

6 

6 

6 

0 

0 

0 

0 

6 

£    s.     d. 

14  14     4  ob, 

6     0     0 

Summa  tot.       20  14     4  ob. 


Recept.  £45 

Soe  remayneth  in  my  hands       ...       £24  .5s.  6(/,  ob. 

R 


242 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


No.  CLVIII. 


MY    SONNE    JOHN    HUTTON  S    ACCOMPTS    FROM    WINCHESTER 
SCHOOL.    (415.) 

HuTTON. — To  Michaelmas. 

Imprimis,  for  a  pay  re  of  stockings 

Item,  a  pound  of  candles 

Item,  for  2  payre  of  shoes 

Item,  for  mending  his  clothes,  and  for  stuffe 

Item,  for  quartridge    ... 

Item,  for  inck 

Item,  a  sett  of  Ovids  ... 

Item,  TuUie's  Offices  ... 

Item,  paper 

Item,  for  mending  his  shoes 

Sum     £l  9s.  ob. 


£ 

s. 

d. 

0 

s 

4 

0 

0 

4  ob 

0 

5 

0 

0 

8 

8 

0 

] 

6 

0 

0 

2 

0 

5 

4 

0 

1 

2 

0 

0 

4 

0 

3 

2 

To  Christmas. — At  his  Entraunce  into  the  Colledge. 


Imprimis,  for  his  dyet  at  M\  Philips''  from  August 

the  16,  to  September  31  (sic) 
Item,  for  a  newe  gowne    ... 
Item,  for  powling  money 
Item,  for  Ohamberstocke,  viz.  to  mend  locks  and 

windowes,  &c. 
Item,  to  his  predecessor  for  glasse  windowes 
Item,  for  a  scobb  to  hold  his  books    . . . 
Item,  for  making  his  surplesse 
Item,  5  ells  and  3  quarters  of  holland  for  it 
Item,  for  5  ells  and  a  half  of  canvis   . . . 
Item,  for  30  pound  of  flocks 
Item,  for  a  coverlid 
Item,  for  a  payre  of  blanquetts 
Item,  3  yeards  of  teike  for  a  boulster 
Item,  for  making  the  bed,  boulster,  and  blanquetts 

Sum     £5  17 s.  4d. 


it         £   s. 

d. 

1   10 

0 

0  16 

9 

0     1 

0 

Cl 

0     1 

6 

0     2 

0 

0     3 

6 

0     2 

6 

0  13 

5 

0     5 

6 

0  15 

0 

0  10 

0 

0  11 

0 

0     4 

0 

s          0     1 

2 

SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 


24.3 


Item,  for  2  payre  of  shooes 
Item,  for  inke  ... 
Item,  for  a  Psalter 
Item,  for  8  poundj?  of  candles 
Item,  for  a  payre  of  stockings 
Item,  for  washing- 
Item,  for  battlings  on  fasting  dayes 
Item,  for  making  his  gowne  at  Christmas 
Item,  for  mending  his  clothes,  and  for  stufte 
Item,  paper 
Item,  for  a  booke  of  Rhetorike 

Sum      £l   7s.  Id. 

To  OUR  Ladyday. 


Imprimis,  to  the  carryer  for  bringing  the  5'' 
Item,  for  his  dinner  on  the  hunting  day 
Item,  for  healing  his  sore  leggs 
Item,  for  a  ^^ayre  of  shoes 
Item,  for  battlings  on  fasting  days,  with  the  Lent 
Item,  for  inke ... 
Item,  for  washing- 
Item,  for  a  payre  of  stockings 
Item,  for  a  payre  of  gloves 
Item,  for  a  pound  of  candles 
Item,  for  learning  to  write 
Item,  for  mending  his  apparrell,  and  stufte 
Item,  paper 

Item,  4  yeards  of  Devonshire  kersey 
Item,  for  making  his  suite 
Item,  for  lininge,  lace,  and  other  necessaryes  for  his 
suite 

Sum     £4  10s.  Sd. 


£ 

s. 

d. 

0 

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2 

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£    s.    d. 


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5 

0 

To  MiDSOMER. 


Imprimis,  for  mending  his  clothes,  and  stufte 
Item,  for  battlings 
Item,  a  pair  of  shoes 


£  s.  d. 

0  3  5 

0  6  0 

0  2  8 

K    2 


244 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


Item 

Item 

Item 

Item 

Item 

Item 

Item 

Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

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*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 

*Item 


Item,  ineke,  a  Tuse.  Qusest,,  Cambden,  and  Greek 

Test. 
Item,  2  bauds... 

a  pair  of  stockings 

2  shirts 

washing 

a  payre  of  gloves 

for  birche 

a  Lncan 

for  sweeping  the  schoole 

for  dressing  an  hatt,  and  an  hatt  band 

for  2  yeards  and  a  half  of  geane  fustian 

for  2  yeards  and  an  half  of  homes  fustian 

for  an  ell  of  canvis 

for  3  yeards  and  an  half  of  black  cotton 

for  a  yeard  of  w^hite  cotton 

for  lace 

for  sowing  silke 

for  sticking  silke    ... 

for  one  yeard  of  russet  fustian 

for  whalbone  and  past-boord  ... 

for  taiFaty 

for  buttons 

tape  for  the  knees ... 

for  making  his  suite 

for  mending  his  gowne 

for  footing  a  payre  of  stockings 

for  mending  his  hose 

for  mending  his  gowne 

for  ftistian,  and  cotton  for  his  hose 

for  tape  for  the  knees 

Sum     £1   I8s.  Ud. 


Summa  totalis 

Remayning  in  my  hand  the  last  yeare 

Keceved  since  i    p<   -.q  r 

Summa  recepta 

Soe  remayneth  due  to  me 

For  tutorage 


£ 
15 

2 


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d. 

7ob. 
7ob. 


d. 
11 

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2  19 
[blank] 


7ob. 
0 


*  These  items  are  struck  out  in  the  bill. 


SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  245 


s      LETTER  CLIX. 

MY    LETTER    TO    MY    LORd's    GRACE    OF    YORKE    FOR 
MR.    SHERRARD. 

8ber  ult.  1G23.     (322.) 

My  dutye  remembred,  &c. 

I  made  bould  att  my  last  beeing  att  Byshopptborp  bumblye  to 
entreate  your  Grace^s  favoure  in  the  behalfe  of  thys  bearer  M\ 
Sherrard  ;  and  I  dyd  then  intimate  unto  your  Grace  that  (with 
your  favourable  acceptance)  I  would  wryte  with  hym  unto  you 
att  such  tyme  as  he  brought  the  booke  which  your  Grace  re- 
quyred  hym  to  wryte. 

I  must  acknowledg  that  I  have  nott  deserved  to  obtayne  any 
sute  of  you  ;  yett  such  is  the  nature  of  necessytye  that  yt  often- 
tymes  presumeth  upon  non  eruhescunt  Utertt.  And,  now  that  I 
have  begunne  to  sjieake  unto  my  Lord,  "  ne  queeso  accendatur  ira 
Domini^  si  loquar  tantiim  Jiac  vice.''''  Good  my  Lord,  even  for 
God's  sake,  hys  glorie,  and  the  good  of  hys  Church,  lett  me 
beseech  and  humbly  beg  your  favour  for  hym,  whose  integretye 
of  lyfe  I  know,  and  whose  learning  you  know,  and  for  both  I 
know  nott  many  such. 

I  know  your  Grace  hath  many  worthye  Chaplaynes,  whoe  de- 
pend on  you  for  there  preferrement  ;  butt  myne  humble  sute  is, 
that  (as  God  hath  made  them  fyshers  of  men)  your  Grace 
would  bestow  such  a  poore  flye  on  hym  as  your  Chaplaynes  hap- 
pelie  wyll  nott  vouchsafe  to  bate  there  hookes  withall.  The 
poore  meanes  that  he  hath  is  nott  worth  twentye  pownds  per 
annum  (T  speake  of  the  most),  having  a  wyfe,  twoe  cliyldren  and 
one  half  (I  speake  of  the  least)  ;  and  such  is  the  myserie  of  the 
tyme,  and  my  desyre  to  wyshe  hym  good,  as  T  would  wyllingly 
gyve  out  of  my  poore  estate  one,  twoe,  or  three  hundreth 
powndes  to  bxiye  hym  a  lyving  yf  I  knew  how  to  come  by  ytt : 
butt  thys  I  make  bould  to  wryte  unto  your  Grace  to  shew  my 
symple  condition  to  hym  as  a  learned  mynyster,  and  as  I  am 
myselfe  a  poore  sonne  of  a  Levyte  ;  your  Grace's  honorable  and 
free  dysposition  to  all  schollars  beeing  known  unto  all.     Thus, 


246  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

loath  to  add  tediousnes  to  bouldnes,  and  Immblye  craving  pardon 
for  the  same,  I  doe  rest, 

Humblye  at  your  Grace's  comandment, 

T.  H. 

Richmund,  8^'''  ult.  [1623.] 


LETTER  CLX. 

MY    LETTER    TO    MR.    DODSWORTH,    CHANCELLOR,    FOR 
ETHERINGTON. 

9ber  22,  1623.     (323.) 

(A  copy  kept  by  Sir  Timothy  Hutton,  the  writer,  and  in  his  oavti  hand.) 

Sir,  I  have  made  boukl  heeretofore  to  entreate  your  lawfull 
favour  for  Tho.  Cooke,  ahas  Etherington,  in  hys  tedious  and 
chardgeable  sute ;  which  now  I  heare  is  to  be  sentenced  upon 
Thursday  next.  If  you  please  to  remember,  I  was  att  your  owne 
liowse,  when  and  wheare  I  shewed  you  all  the  evydences  which 
weare  taken  upon  oath  for  the  King,  and  they  prooved  strongly 
for  hym  ;  otherwyse  he  had  been  condemned  att  the  last  assises, 
and  had  suffered  death,  which  had  gyven  an  end  to  all  hys  tro- 
bles  :  butt  now,  whatt  with  the  hanging  of  cause  soe  long,  and 
that  yf  sentence  goe  agaynst  hym,  ytt  wylbe  worse  then  death 
unto  hym,  beeing  utterlye  undon  allreadye. 

And,  good  Sir,  gyve  me  leave  to  remember  you,  that,  when  I 
shewed  you  the  depositions,  you  sayd  that  you  had  beene  strong- 
lye  enformed  of  the  heynousnes  of  the  fact,  and  that  you  never 
heard  soe  much  to  the  contrarye  before  ;  and  that,  yf  they  weare 
true,  there  would  be  no  doubt  but  the  cause  would  goe  well 
enough  on  hys  syde. 

Sir,  nott  to  interpose  my  poore  opynyon  with  your  reverend 
judgment,  I  doe  proteste  unto  you  even  upon  my  conscience  and 
knowledg  ytt  is  as  conscionable  a  cause  (whearein  I  beseech  your 
favour)  as  ever  I  knew  in  my  lyfe. 

I  would  nott  wrongfullye  intimate  thus  much  unto  you,  by- 
cause  if  the  cause  goe  agaynst  hym  ytt  is  hys  undoing  (as  he  is 
allreadye),  yea  though  ytt  weare  upon  the  hazard  of  myne  owne 
overthrow,  for  all  the  worlde  ;  butt  onlye  that  I  cannott  contayne 
but  in  soe  conscionable  a  case  to  entreate  your  lawfull  and  just 
censure. 


SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  247 

And  the  rather  for  that  I  have  heard  (nescio  quo)  that  you  are 
resolved  to  gyve  sentence  agaynst  hym  ;  which  I  doe  rather  won- 
der att  then  beleave,  knowmg-  that  the  judgement  of  a  judge  is 
(untyll  ytt  be  delyvered)  in  scrinio  ^^^ctoris. 

He  hath  beene  mooved  by  dyvers  to  appeale  further,  but  I 
liave  styll  dyswaded  hym  from  ytt ;  assuring  hym  of  your  up- 
ryghtnes  and  lawfull  favoure,  wheareof  I  doubt  not,  and  whearein 
you  shall  fynd  hym  an  humble  and  thankefull  remembrancer  of 
the  same.  And  thus,  loath  to  add  tediousnes  to  bouldnes, 

I  rest  your  ever  loving  frend, 

T.  H. 

9ber  22,  1623. 


LETTER  CLXI. 

MR.    ALLANSON    [tO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON]. 

Julie  7,  1G24. 

Right  Worshipfull,  Your  sonne  M^  Matliew  Hutton,  and 
your  Sonne  in  lawe  M^  Mallyverer,  did  both  acquaint  me  (the 
last  tyme  of  there  beinge  att  Yorke)  with  two  tythes  you  then 
had  unletten,  Killam  and  Aldbroughe.  Killam  I  did  perceave 
was  partely  letten,  but  yet  ]\F.  Thomson  did  somthing  dally 
with  you  ;  and  so  they  wished  me  to  showe  to  have  a  hand  in 
the  takinge  of  itt,  which  I  have  alredy  done.  I  have  enquired 
after  it,  so  that  I  know  it  is  come  to  his  understandinge  ;  and  I 
hope  I  shalbe  a  meanes  to  forder  you  x''  p  ann.  in  it.  I  have 
also  enquired  of  your  tithe  att  Aldbroughe  ;  and,  if  it  be  your 
pleasure,  I  wilbe  your  tenant,  so  that  I  may  have  itt  att  an  in- 
different peneworth.  I  do  understand  it  is  not  so  valuable  as  it 
was  by  some  xx''  markes  p  ann.  by  reason  of  the  woll  and 
lambe  and  some  other  things.  I  will  venter  of  it  att  foureskore 
pownds,  and  take  it  as  itt  now  is,  so  that  I  may  have  a  lease  of 
it  at  thatt  rate  ;  and,  for  your  rent,  yow  shal  not  misse  of  itt  one 
day.  Clod  willinge.  Thus,  desiringe  your  present  answer,  for,  as  I 
understand,  they  intend  to  cutt  downe  some  of  there  niiddow  to 
morrow  or  next  day,  I  rest 

Your  worship's  frend  to  be  commaunded, 

Wm.  Allanson. 

Yorke,  this  7tli  of  July,  1624. 


248  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  CLXII. 

WILL.    ALDEBROUGH    [TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON] 
COM.    PRO    RECUSAN. 

5  Sep.  1624. 

Sir  Tymothie,  I  would  desire  you,  as  convenlenly  as  you 
could,  to  send  me  word  what  tyme  and  place  you  aj^poynte  for 
the  executione  of  his  Majestie"'s  commission  to  us  and  others 
directed  for  the  levying  of  his  Majestie"'s  fines  for  the  fynes  of 
the  recusants.  It  is  lett  me  understand  (but  I  am  nott  eer- 
tayne)  that  the  Commissiners  have  setten  upon  the  said  com- 
misson  in  all  devisions  save  Richmondshire  ;  so  I  would  desyre 
you  that  wee  might  not  be  slacke  therin,  and  that  you  would 
appoynt  a  place  within  twelfe  myles,  for  I  am  not  able  ftirther 
to  travill.  Thus,  with  my  love  and  kinde  wishes  to  you,  my 
ladye,  and  your  children,  I  committ  you  to  God. 

Yours  in  all  kindenes. 

Will.  Aldebukgh. 
Ellingthorpe,  the  5"'  Sept.  1624. 


No.  CLXIII. 


THE    WILL    OF    SIR    TIMITHIE    HUTTON,    KNT. 

Februarie  17'^  1628. 

In  the  name  of  God  the  Father,  of  God  the  Son,  and  of  God 
the  Holy  Ghoste.      Amen,  Amen,  Amen. 

Blessed  be  thy  glorious  name  (0  God)  for  these  temporal! 
blessings  which  thou  hast  bestowed  on  me,  thyne  unworthy 
servante  ;  humbly  beseechinge  the  (O  Lord)  to  blesse  this  my 
disposeinge  thereof  unto  my  poore  posterity,  even  to  thy  good 
will  and  pleasure.  Butt  espeatially  (0  gracious  God)  I  doe  give 
the  most  humble  and  harty  thankes  for  thy  spirituall  favours, 
which  thou  hast  frely  bestowed  on  me  by  the  testimony  of  thy 
most  holy,  sacred,  and  assisteinge  Spiritt,  the  assurance  of  con- 


SIR   TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  249 

solation  in  thy  salvation  ;  unto  whom  therefore,  and  in  whose 
name,  I  doe  most  humbly  recommend  my  sinfull  soule.  And  as 
for  my  miserable  and  wretched  body,  the  onely  enemy  to  my 
soule,  I  hold  it  not  worthy  of  any  disposeinge,  but  doe  leave 
it  unto  the  disposeinge  of  my  freinds,  as  they  in  there  foolish 
affeccion  shall  give  order  for  the  same ;  though  I  knowe  that 
with  these  eyes,  and  none  other,  I  shall  comfortably  see  my 
Saviour  in  that  greate  and  joyfull  day,  untill  when  (0  good 
Lord)  heare  me  and  myne  when  we  doe  call  upon  the :  yea 
(0  my  God)  I  doe  knowe  that  thou  hearest,  but  (Lord)  heare 
and  have  mercy  and  blesse  us  with  thy  most  sacred  and  com- 
fortable Spiritt  ;  and  safe-vouch  that  that  never  departe  from  us, 
but  that  it  may  be  our  assured  comfort  and  consolation  to  the 
end  and  in  the  end.     Amen,  Amen. 

Lnprimis,  I  give  unto  my  deare  and  ever-lovinge  sister,  the 
Lady  Ann  Hutton,  of  Neither  Popleton,  wyddowe,  twenty 
pounds  in  gold  to  buy  her  a  gowne,  and  that  to  be  payed  within 
one  yeare  after  my  death  ;  and  I  pray  God  reward  her  into  her 
bosome  for  her  loveinge  kindnesses  which  she  hath  ever  afforded 
to  me  and  myne.  Also  I  doe  give  unto  her  my  thre  coach 
horses.  Item,  I  give  unto  my  nephew,  Richard  Hutton,  one 
twenty  shillings  peece  of  gould  to  make  him  a  ring.  Item, 
I  give  unto  my  neece,  Elizabeth  Hutton,  her  daughter,  one 
twenty  shilling  peece  of  gould  to  make  her  a  ringe,  and  I  pray 
God  blesse  them.  Item,  I  give  unto  myne  adopted  wife,  M'^ 
Margarett  Benett,  one  twenty  shillings  peece  of  gould  to  make 
her  a  ringe,  and  I  pray  God  to  send  her  a  good  husband. 
Item,  I  give  unto  my  very  kynde  freind,  M^  John  Weeks,  her 
unkle,  my  bay  saddle  nagge,  and  I  pray  God  to  send  him  a 
good  wife.  Item,  I  give  unto  every  household  servante  of  my 
sisters  house  att  Popleton  five  shillings  in  silver.  Item,  I  give 
unto  little  Nanne  Cleburne  one  hundreth  pounds  if  she  doe 
marry  with  my  son's  Matthew's  consente,  and  they  to  be  payd 
with  use  for  the  same  from  the  tyme  from  my  death  to  her 
marryage-day,  and  I  pray  God  to  blesse  her.  Item,  I  give 
unto  my  cosine  Hutton,  Sam.  Hutton's  widowe,  one  twenty 
shillings  peece  of  gould  to  make  her  a  ringe.  Item,  I  give 
unto  Tim.  Hutton,  her  son  and  my  godson,  ffowerteene  pounds 
per  annum  for  seaven  yeares,  if  he  doe  behave  himselfe  well  and 
continue  soe  longe  att  Cambridge.     Item,  I  give  unto  that  sane- 


250  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

tifyed  man,  JVr.  Danyell  Sherrard,  the  now  preacher  at  Pople- 
ton,  tenn  pounds  per  annum,  untill  he  gett  a  liveinge  worth 
forty  pounds  per  annum  ;  and  to  every  one  of  his  three  sons, 
vizt.  Timothy,  Richard,  and  John,  five  pounds  a  peece  towards 
the  byndeinge  of  them  apprentices.  Item,  I  give  to  Thomas 
Mudd,  if  he  serve  me  till  I  dy,  five  pounds.  Item,  I  give  unto 
William  Price,  if  he  serve  me  till  I  die,  fower  pounds.  Item, 
I  doe  give  unto  John  Dauney,  if  he  serve  me  till  I  die,  fower 
pounds.  Item,  I  doe  give  unto  Thomas  Phillipps  the  elder, 
of  Marske,  forty  shillings  per  annum  soe  longe  as  he  liveth. 
Item,  I  give  unto  George  Kynnemounte  of  Richmond  forty 
shillings  per  annum  soe  longe  as  he  liveth.  Item,  I  give  unto 
my  very  good  friend,  M^  John  Jackson,  preacher  att  Marske, 
one  twenty  shillings  peece  of  gould  to  make  him  a  ringe.  Item, 
I  give  unto  my  second  son,  Timothy  Hutton,  thirty  pounds 
per  annum,  which  my  sister  Hutton  payeth  dureinge  his  life ; 
as  also  I  doe  give  him  one  hundreth  pounds,  to  be  payd  unto 
him  within  one  yeare  after  my  death.  Item,  I  doe  give  unto 
my  third  sonn,  Phillipp  Hutton,  flfifty  pounds  per  annum  dureinge 
his  life ;  and  that  to  continue  untill  my  sonn  Matthewe  doe  pro- 
cure him,  or  that  he  doe  obtayne,  a  liveinge  worth  one  hundreth 
pounds  per  annum,  and  the  ffifty  pounds  above  sayd  then  to 
cease.  Item,  I  do  give  unto  my  fourth  sonn,  John  Hutton, 
ffifty  pounds  per  annum,  upon  the  same  condicions  as  are  for- 
merly for  his  brother  Phillipp.  Item,  I  give  unto  my  fifth 
sonn,  Thomas  Hutton,  fifty  pounds  per  annum  soe  longe  as  he 
liveth.  Item,  I  do  give  unto  my  eldest  daughter,  Beatrice 
Mauleverer,  a  twenty  shillings  peece  of  gould  to  make  her  a 
ringe;  and  to  every  of  her  daughters  who  are  livinge  when  I  dy 
twenty  pounds,  to  be  payed  att  there  marryage.  Item,  I  give 
unto  my  second  daughter,  Frances  Dodsworth,  a  twenty  shil- 
lings peece  of  gould  to  make  her  a  ringe  ;  and  to  every  of  her 
daughters  who  are  liveinge  when  I  dy  twenty  pounds,  to  be 
payed  at  their  marryage.  Item,  I  give  unto  my  third  daughter, 
Elizabeth  Cleburne,  a  twenty  shillings  peece  of  gold  to  make  her 
a  ringe  ;  and  to  every  of  her  daughters  who  are  liveinge  when  I 
die  (excepting  Nanne)  twenty  pounds,  to  be  payed  at  there  mar- 
ryage. Item,  I  doe  give  unto  my  dearely  beloved  daughter. 
Barbery  Hutton,  twenty  pounds  to  buy  her  a  gowne  ;  and  to 
every  of  her  daughters  who  are  liveinge  when  t  dy,  to  be  payed  att 


SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON.  251 

there  marryage,  twenty  pounds.     Item,  I  give  unto  my  brother, 
S^  Talbot  Bowes,  K',,  if  he  be  hveinge  when  I  dy,  one  twenty 
shilhngs  peece  of  goukl  to  make  him  a  ringe.     Item,  I  give  unto 
my  brother,  Thomas  Bowes,  if  he  be  Hveinge  when  I  dy,  one 
twenty  shillings  peece  of  gould  to  make  him  a  ringe.      Item,  I  doe 
give  unto  my  sister  Ann,  his  wife,  if  she  be  liveinge  when  I  die, 
one  twenty  shillings  peece  of  gould  to  make  her  a  ringe.     Item, 
I  give  unto  my  dry  nurse,  Elizabeth  Bowes,  her  daughter,  one 
twenty  shillings  peece  of  gould  to  make  her  a  ringe.     Item,  I 
give  unto  my  brother,  John  Bowes,  fForty  shillings  per  annum 
soe  longe  as  he  liveth.     Item,  I  give  unto  my  sister,  Jane  Bowes, 
fforty  shillings  per  annum  soe  longe  as  she  liveth.     Item,  I  give 
unto  my  kind  brother,  S^  John  Calverley,  K*.,  one  twenty  shil- 
lings peece  of  gould  to  make  him  a  ringe.      Item,  I  doe  give 
unto  my  worthy  friend,  M"^.  Justice  Hutton,  one  twenty  shillings 
peece  of  gould  to  make  him  a  ringe,  desireing  the  continueance  of 
his  countenance  and  advise  unto  me  and  myne.       Item,  I  doe 
give  unto  a  preacheinge  minister  att  Marwicke,  soe  longe  as  it 
shall  continue  in  my  poore  posterity,  twenty  pounds  per  annum, 
soe  he  doe  continue  and  lie  there,  and  that  he  be  of  honest  con- 
versacion.     Item,   I  doe  give  out  of  my  lands  att  Marske  unto 
the  schoole  and  hospitall  att  Warton  in  Lancashire,  which  was 
erected  by  my  late  deare  and  reverend  father,  two  and  twenty 
pounds,  thirteene  shillings,  and  ffower  pence  per  annum,  untill 
my  sonn  JNIatthewe  can  buy  a  rente  charge   in  Lancashire  or 
elsewhere,   which  beinge    added    unto   the   ffower   and    twenty 
pounds  which  ^r.  Tocketts  payeth  maketh  upp  the  just  some  of 
six  and  fforty  pounds,  thirteene  shillings,  and  ffower  pence  ;  and 
I  doe  wish  my  sonn  JNIatthewe  to  be  carefull  that  thee  poore 
men's  place  be  bestowed  on  none  but  such  as  are  the  most  ini- 
potente  and  poorest.     Item,   I  doe  give  unto  my  eldest  sonn, 
Matthewe  Hutton,  whom  I  doe  make  sole  executor  of  this  my 
last  will  and  testament,  all  the  rest  of  my  lands  and  goods  (not 
disposed  of)  ;  and  I  doe  humbly  beseech  God  that  what  I  have 
here  given  that  he  wilbe  pleased  to  give  a  blessings  thereunto. 
Item,  I  doe  require  and  charge  my  sonne  Matthewe,  in  that  duty 
which  a  sonne  oweth  unto  the  remembrance  of  a  father,  that  he 
will  alwaies  keepe  a  Levite  in  his  house,  and  to  leave  a  charge 
behind  him  to  those  who  shall  by  God's  grace  succeed  him  to  doe 
the  like,  and  to  give  a  competente  and  sufficiente  allowance  unto 


252  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

him  ;  and  I  doe  hartily  wish  that  it  might  be  soe  continued  soe 
longe  as  it  should  please  God  to  continue  the  poore  posterity  of 
this  poore  house,  which  it  hath  pleased  God  soe  lately  to  rayse  out 
of  the  duste.  Domine  Jesu,  veni  cito.  Amen.  0  Lord,  make 
noe  longe  tarryinge.  Amen.  O  Lord,  I  have  wayted  for  thy 
salvation.    Amen.  Timothie  Hutton. 

xxx"  Martii,  1629. 

And  whereas  upon  my  sonne  Matthewe's  marriage  it  was 
expressly  covenanted  and  agreed  betwixt  S^  Conyers  Darcie  and 
mee  that  the  estate  then  conferred  upon  my  said  sonne  should 
stand  and  be  free  from  the  charge  or  burden  of  my  younger  chil- 
dren, for  whose  preferment  certaine  leases  were  then  left  forth, 
which  since  he  and  I  have  for  the  necessarie  freedome  of  our- 
selves and  the  said  estaite  beene  inforced  otherwise  to  dispose  of, 
yet  so  as  upon  a  due  estimate  of  what  by  way  of  purchase  is  in 
the  meane  tyme  added  to  his  said  estate  (beinge  more  then 
equivolent  to  what  by  this  my  will  I  do  charge  him  withall),  I 
do  hope  and  desire  that  as  well  the  said  S'"  Oonyers  as  my  said 
sonne  wille  so  far  from  dissentinge  to  what  I  hereby  devise  to 
and  for  the  benefitt  of  my  younger  children  or  any  other,  as  that 
they  Avill  extend  their  best  helpes  and  endeavors  from  tyme  to 
tyme  for  the  effectuall  and  reall  performance  thereof  accordiuge 
to  my  true  meaninge.  And  further,  whereas  I  have  by  a  formerly 
made  will  bequeathed  fifty  pounds  a  Y>cece  to  my  ffower  younger 
sonnes  ;  now,  for  a  plaine  declaracion  of  my  true  intention  in  that 
respect,  I  do  hereby  will  and  bequeath  to  my  sonne  Timothie 
the  xxx^.  per  annum  over  and  besides  the  xx^\  per  annum  taken 
in  his  name  forth  of  Darton,  accordinge  as  in  my  former  will  is 
expressed.  And  for  my  sonne  Philipp,  his  annuitie  to  be  con- 
tinued untill  it  shall  please  God  he  be  preferred  to  one  or  more 
spirituall  livings  or  dignities  of  the  value  of  100''.  per  annum ; 
and  the  like  for  my  sonne  John,  savinge  that  my  mynde  is,  his 
first  payment  do  not  beginne  untill  six  monethes  before  he  take 
the  degrees  of  a  master  of  arts  ;  and  for  my  sonne  Thomas  my 
mynd  is,  his  first  payment  beginne  not  till  six  monethes  before  hee 
be  out  of  his  service.  And  for  Anne  Cleburne,  whereas  I  have 
formerly  given  her  one  hundred  pounds  with  the  use  or  con- 
sideracion  till  her  marriage,  I  now  declare  that  notbinge  is  to  be 
paid   for   use,   but    only   the  hundred  pounds  at   her   marriage. 


SIR    TIMOTHY    IIUTTON.  253 

And  tlieese,  as  I  have  hereby  Hniited  the  same,  I  desire  my 
brother  Darcy  and  his  sonne,  and  charge  and  requyer  my  sonnc 
Matthew,  as  my  trust  is  in  him,  to  be  accordingly  truely  per- 
formed.    Witnesses  hereof, 

Christopher  Pepper.  John  Jackson. 

CoNYERS  Darcy.  Conyers  Darcie. 

Proved  before  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  York, 
sede  vacantc,  9  Dec.  1631. 

(From  tlie  original  probate,  penes  J.  Hntton,  Esq.,    Marske   Hall.    Yorkshiro, 
April,  1S14.— M.  F.) 


AN    INVENTORY    OF    THE    HOUSEHOLD    GOODS    ETC-    OF    SIR 
TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

A  TRUE  invcntorie  of  all  the  honsehold  stuffe  bclonginge  to  the  Right  Worship- 
full  Sir  Timothic  Hutton,  Knt.,  lately  deceased,  within  his  house  of  Richmond 
praised  by  those  whose  names  are  hereunder  written,  viz.  Thomas  Phillip,  Richard 
Hutchinson,  Christopher  Berrie,  and  Hutton  Grcgorie,  the  fourth  day  of  July 

Anno  Dili  1629. 

£    s.    d. 

Inprimis,  all  his  apparcll,  with  saddle,  foot  cloth,  and  furniture  16  13     4 

Item,  in  the  gallerie  chamber,  a  little  canopie  bed  furnished,  and 

one  chaire    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  10     0 

Item,  in  the  chamber  at  the  staires'  head,  a  little  cannopie  bed  fur- 
nished, two  chaires,  one  table  and  cloth    ...  ...  ...  200 

Item,  in  the  middle  chamber,  one  feild  bed  furnished,  one  trundle 

bed  furnished,  a  livery  cubbert  and  cloth  ...  ...  ...  7     0     0 

Item,  in  the  best  chamber,  one  feild  bed  with  furniture,  one  trundle 
bed  with  furniture,  one  liverie  cubbord  with  cloth,  two  chaires, 
and  fower  stooles 

Item,  one  wrought  top  and  vallance  for  a  bed 

Item,  one  riche  furniture  for  a  bedsteade 

Item,  in  the  chamber  within,  one  little  bedstead  furnished,  and 

two  truncks...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  1   10     0 

Item,  in  the  kitchen  chamber,  one  standing  bedstead  with  furni- 
ture, one  liverey  cubbert  with  cloth,  two  truncks,  one  chest, 
one  chaire,  8  stooles,  two  window  cushions  ...  ...  /j  10     0 

Item,  in  the  inner  chamber,  one  feild  bed  furnished,  one  trundle 
bedd  furnished,  a  liverie  cubbert  with  cloth,  a  little  table  and 
cloth,  and  two  chaires  ...  ...  ...  ...  500 

Item,  in  the  little  kitchen  chamber,   three  danske  chests,   one 

truncke,  and  one  presse  ...  ...  ...  ...  10     0 

Item,  in  the  nurscrie,  three  bedsteads  furnished  ...  ...  100 

Item,  in  the  men's  chambers,  iivc  bedsteads  furnished,  with  one 

little  table     ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  4     0     0 


8 

0 

0 

1 

10 

0 

20 

0 

0 

8     0 

0 

0     5 

0 

3     0 

0 

0  10 

0 

254  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

£    s.    d 
Item,  in  the  parlor,  one  drawinge  table,  one  livcrie  cuLbert,  one 

Germaine  clock,  and  two  pictures  ...  ...  ...  300 

Item,  in  the  hall,  two  drawinge  tables,  one  liverie  cubbert,  two 
carpetts,  five  formes,  five  stooles,  one  chaire,  and  one  paire  of 
tables  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  2  10     0 

Item,  in  the  kitchen,  four  dozen  and  a  half  of  pewther,  7  brass  potts 
and  posnetts,  4  brasse  pannes,  two  kettles,  one  pestell  and  mor- 
ter,  two  drippin  pannes,  2  fryinge  pannes,  three  spitts,  one  paire 
of  racks,  a  gallow  balke,  3  paire  of  gallow  crookes,  3  paire  of  pott 
crookes,  a  pair  of  tongs,  a  porr,  3  laddies,  one  grater,  two  chop- 
ping knives 
Item,  in  the  larder,  one  meale  tubb,  and  one  safe 
Item,  in  the  brewhouse,  one  lead,  one  cooler,  one  gilefat,  and  one 

mashfatt,  with  the  appurtenances 
Item,  in  the  pantrie,  one  table,  one  binge,  and  3  flagons 
Item,  in  plate,  viz.  one  guilt  bason  and  ewre,  two  guilt  flagons,  one 
pomegrannett  guilt  bowle,  one  great  guilt  salt,  one  little  guilt  salt, 
nine  guilt  spoones,  one  guilt  bowle  with  a  cover,  six  guilt  plates, 
twelve  silver  plates,  two  dozen  and  ahalfe  of  silver  spoones,  one 
basen  and  ewer  percell  guilt,  one  silver  skinker,one  silver  crewitt, 
3  silver  bowles,  one  silver  sugar  box  and  spoone,  one  silver  por- 
ringer ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...         30     0     0 

Item,  in  linen,  viz.  one  suite  of  damaske,  two  long  diaper  table 
clothes,  4  square  diaper  table  clothes,  4  dozen  of  diaper  napkins, 
three  diaper  towells,  five  lynnen  table  clothes,  8  square  lynnen 
clothes,  13  dozen  of  linnen  napkins,  8  lynnen  towells,  five  course 
table  clothes,  20  pair  of  lynnen  sheets,  seaven  paire  of  course 
sheets,  14  pair  of  pillow  beres    ...  ...  ...  ...         13  13     4 

A  Note  of  playte  for  Sir  Timothie  Hutton  (no  date). 
Imprimis,  one  basen  and  ewer  gilte,  weeinge  ounces  three-score  and  six. 
Item,  one  gilte  sake,  with  a  trensher  salte,  weeinge  ounces  forty-three. 
Item,  twoo  gilte  pots,  weeinge  ounces  foure-score  and  five. 
Item,  one  standinge  cuppe  gilte,  with  a  cover,  weeinge  five  and  thirty  ounces. 
Item,  one  more  standinge  cuppe,  with  a  cover,  weeinge  five  and  thirty  ounces. 
Item,  one  standinge  cuppe  gilte,  with  a  cover,  after  the  pomegranate  fachen, 

weeinge  thirty-twoo  ounces  and  a  halfe. 
Item,  twoo  gilt  boules  with  covers,  weeinge  thirty-seven  ounces. 
Item,  twoo  gilte  boules  with  covers,  weeinge  thirty-six  ounces. 
Item,  one  silver  basen  and  ewer  gilte,  weeinge  four-score  and  tenne  ounces. 
Item,  one  sugar  box  of  silver,  weeinge  seventeene  ounces  and  a  quarterne. 
Item,  a  dozen  of  postell  spounes,  weighte  three  and  twentye  ounces. 
Item,  one  dosen  of  white  playte,  in  weighte  foure-score  and  sixtene  ounces. 
Item,  six  gilded  playte,  in  weight  eight  and  forty  ounces. 
Item,  a  silver  cruse,  weeinge  eight  ounces. 

651  ounces  and  a  half  and  a  quarter. 


MATTHEW     HUTTON,     ESQ. 
CORRESPONDENCE,    etc. 


257 


LETTER  CLXIV. 

RICHARD    BRATHWAIT^^    [tO    MATTHEW    HUTTON,    ESQ.] 
Feb.  23,  1629-30. 

Sir,  Such  small  successes  did  our  last  meeting'  produce,  as  I 
am  wholly  dishartened  to  renew  them.  Besides,  I  doe  much 
feare  that  in  accepting  of  new  propositions,  or  admitting  of  any 
new  bargaine,  it  might  fare  with  me  as  it  doth  with  unex- 
perienced younglins,  who,  after  one  arrow  lost  or  grazM,  shoot  an 
other  after.  Truth  is,  if  these  propositions  (which  in  generall 
tearmes  you  expresse  in  your  letter)  did  probably  induce  me  that 
they  intended  any  conclusion,  I  should  be  the  more  inclinable 
unto  them  ;  but  how  farre  these  have  come  short  of  so  taire  and 
successive  a  cloze,^^  I  appeall  unto  your  knowing  selfe.  Not- 
withstanding all  this,  so  strong  and  impressive  a  conceite  have  I 
ever  reteyned  of  your  candor  and  integrity,  as  I  perswade  my 
selfe  that  nothing  you  propound  eyther  in  this  particular  or  in 
ought  else  that  may  tend  to  honest  and  competible  mediations, 
but  they  receive  opinion  from  you  of  assured  successe,  at  least ; 
so  probably  grounded  as  they  promise  no  lesse.  If  you  will  be 
pleased  to  draw  to  some  head  such  propositions  as  you  intend, 
and  returne  them  so  punctually  and  definitely  as  eyther  to  con- 
clude so  or  not,  I  shall,  out  of  that  respect  and  observance  which 
I  tender  you,  not  onely  returne  answer  to  your  demaunds,  but 
if  it  shall  be  requisite,  or  that  such  propositions  as  you  shall  make 
accomodate  themselves  to  any  probable  end,  I  shall  insert  some 
indifferent  place  to  treate  more  fully  touching  the  premizes: 
which  course,  as  I  conceive,  is  so  much  the  rather  to  be  em- 
braced, in  that  it  prepares  the  parties  what  they  may  object,  how 
to  resolve,  and  in  each  particular  to  addresse  what  they  propose 

5'  The  autlior  of"  Drunken  Barnaby's  Journal." 

*^  The  word  formerly  stands  in  the  margin  of  the  letter  opposite  to  this  sen- 
tence. 

S 


258  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

to  some  effectuall  conclusion.  If  some  occasions  of  maine  con- 
sequence doe  not  divert  my  resolves,  I  purpose,  God  willing,  to 
be  at  Yorke  assizes  ;  against  which  tyme,  I  suppose,  upon  con- 
ference with  Sir  Talbot  and  his  brother,  you  may  pitch  upon 
some  conclusive  resolves  :  howesoever,  upon  returne  of  your  par- 
ticular propositions,  which  I  shall  expect  with  all  convenient 
expedition,  I  shall  addresse  my  answer  unto  yourselfe.  So,  with 
our  best  respects  unto  your  selfe  and  second  selfe,  I  rest, 

Your  assured  loving  friend, 

Ri.  Brathwait. 
Burneshead,  the  23"'  February,  1629. 


LETTER  CLXV. 

THOS.    DAWSON    [tO    MATTHEW    HUTTON,    ESQ.] 

21  Jan.  16.36-7. 
Right  Worshipfull, 

This  day  I  have  hade  sum  conferrance  with  this  bearer, 
Thomas  Hawksby,  who  is  ffaither  to  my  coosen  Tobie  Hutton 
his  wiefe  ;  and  I  finde  that  hee  takes  good  likeinge  to  his  sonn  in 
law,  that  he  is  not  only  willinge  to  put  too  his  helpping  hande 
to  doe  him  good,  butt  will  straine  himselfe  so  farr,  as,  without  his 
too  much  prejudice,  he  may  settell  him  and  his  daughter  in  sum 
good  courses,  whereby  they  may  maintaine  themselves,  so  that 
his  Sonne's  ffriends  will  give  him  some  reasonable  assistance.  And 
that  which  he  desires  is  butt  fouer  or  five  pounds,  and  nott  to  be 
at  Tobie  his  disposeinge,  but  putt  into  his  hands,  who  will  add 
so  much  thereto  as  will  settle  them  in  a  good  towne,  where  hee 
may  use  his  trade,  and  she  sum  other  meanes  for  there  mainten- 
ance. The  old  mann  seemes  to  mee  to  be  very  honest,  and  I 
heare  of  good  sufficience  ;  butt  in  these  particulars  he  saithe  hee 
will  give  your  worshipp  good  satisfaction  by  gentelmen  of  your 
acquaintance,  who  are  his  neare  neigbours :  which  if  he  doe,  I 
shall  be  an  humble  suter  to  your  Avorshipp  in  the  behalfe  of  my 
coosen  Tobie,  to  hassarde  the  losse  of  4  or  5"^,  in  hope  that  by 
his  iFaither''s  meanes  so  will  be  settled  in  such  a  way  that  hee  will 
maintaine  hime  selfe  like  an  honest  man,  that  his  ffriends  may 
have  comforte  to  see  it ;    which  if  he  doe,  it  will  rejoycc  you 


MATTHEW    HUTTON.  2o9 

that  you  hazarded  your  mouie,  and  will  draw  a  greatter  curtesie 

from  you  :   but  if  it  fall  forthe  otherwaies  by  his  neglect,  let  this 

bee  the  last ;  which  with  the  rest  I  leave  to  your  grave  and  wise 

consideration.    And  thus,  with  the  tender  of  my  humblest  service, 

I  take  my  leave,  and  will  ever  remaine, 

Your  worshipp's  to  be  comanded, 

Tho.  Dawson. 

From  Yorke  the  xxi"-  of  January,  Anno  Do.  1636. 

To  the  right  worshipful]  my  worthie  and  much  esteemed 
ffriende,  Mathew  Hutton,  Esq.,  att  his  liouse  att  Marsk, 
these  present. 


LETTER  CLXVI. 

JOHN    JACKSON,    RECTOR    OF    MARSKE,    [tO    MATTHEW 
HUTTON,    ESQ.] 

June  2,  1637. 

Good  Sir,  I  do  so  thirst  for  your  returne,  and  languish  so 
thorough  my  defeated  hope  of  having  enjoyed  yow  heere  this 
night,  that  I  have  neither  mind  ne  power  to  write  more  than  two 
words.  And  (indeed)  to  be  cramped  with  reading  a  short  letter 
is  less  torment  then  to  be  putt  on  the  rack  with  a  long.  Touch- 
ing your  sweet  self-multiplyed  ones  (of  which  yow  desire  to  heare 
in  the  first  place),  M'.  Jones,  in  your  absence,  hath  bene  as  care- 
full  of  them  as  one  could  be  of  a  christall  glass.  They  are  all 
three  as  your  owne  harts  could  wish  them  ;  that  is,  very  well, 
save  that  Jacky  laboureth  a  little  in  his  eyes.  Babby  (whose 
innocent  actions  carry  theyr  warrant  with  them)  cheeres  us  all 
with  her  warme  and  moyst  kisses.  Touching  the  inony  yow 
wrote  about,  I  can  say  nothing  but  as  the  day  shall  bring  forth. 
You  know  who  is  to  be  the  paymaster  of  the  greater  part  of  it ; 
one  who,  if  all  the  rules  of  physiognomy  be  not  false,  will  not 
pay  just  at  his  day.  The  bearer  heereof  will  also  beare  yow  all 
the  regreets  that  yow  can  expect  from  your  owne  family.  I  send 
yow  mine  heere  under  scale,  not  so  much  for  the  secrecy  as  for 
the  sureness  thereof.  Also  to  IVr*.  Hutton  and  M''^  Rothy  more 
harty  affection  then  poetry  can  feigne  or  oratory  vary ;   also  to 


260  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

yow  all  this  short  but  full  prayer,  Jesu  be  your  Jesus  !  From 
Marske,  a  place  seated  betvveene  4  great  hills,  or  (as  yow  may 
properly  speake)  the  English  Alpes ;  which,  though  it  be  our 
habitation,  yet,  in  your  so  long  absence,  our  place  of  banish- 
ment. 

Yours  verily,  to  be  ever  commanded, 

JoH.  Jackson. 
June  2°,  1637. 


LETTER  CLXVII. 

JOHN    JACKSON    [tO    MATTHEW    HUTTON,    ESQ.] 
March  1637-8. 

Good  S",  We  now  begin  to  grow  impatient  of  your  long  ab- 
sence from  us :  so,  as  I  am  a  generall  suitour  to  pray  yow  to  fold 
upp  your  businesses  and  make  hast  northe-ward.  By  our  neigh- 
bour, M"".  Nicholson,  I  wrote  to  yow.  By  your  servant,  Th. 
CI.,  I  receaved  a  kind  letter  from  yow,  for  which  I  owe  yow 
much  thancks  ;  whereby  I  perceave  yow  have  very  notably  fitted 
mee  with  a  trilingue  psalterium,  which  indeed  is  just  such  an 
one  as  I  would  have  (if  it  be  well  printed).  For  the  Chaldee  or 
Syriack  I  care  not,  and  only  mentioned  them  because  I  thought 
yow  would  hardly  gett  one  of  the  three  tongues  only.  I  pray, 
Sir,  let  it  be  preserved  even  as  it  is,  without  alteration  of  binding, 
if  already  yow  have  not  delivered  it  over  to  be  broken  by  the 
bookbinder.  So  as  the  book  yow  had  upp  with  yow  being 
fayrely  bound,  and  that  only  brought  downe,  yow  have  fully 
therein  concurred  with  my  desires.  I  hope  by  this  tyme  M^ 
Bvdwer's  debet  is  payed  yow.  I  must  needs,  in  the  behalf  of  my 
wife,  pray  yow  also  to  buy  her  2  fayr  and  usefull  bone  combes, 
about  16  or  18"^.  a  piece.  God  send  us  yow  saffe  home  is  a  piece 
of  our  March  leiturgy,  and  of 

Yo*^  very  fr.  and  servant, 

Jo.  Jackson. 


MATTHEW    HUTTON.  261 


No.  CLXVIII. 


FERD.    LORD    FAIRFAX,    HIS    PROTECTION. 

5  Aug.  1644. 

Ferdinando  Lord  Fairfax,  Lord  Generall  of  the  North,  &c., 
to  all  colonells,  captaines,  commanders,  and  other  officers  and 
soldiers  in  the  service  of  the  King  and  Parlament.  These  are  to 
signify  and  make  knowne  to  you  that  the  Parlament  has  given 
spetiall  order  that  noe  howses  bee  plundered  or  pillaged,  to  whom- 
soever they  belong ;  and  that  the  rather,  because  the  delin- 
quents'" estates  are  to  bee  aunswerable  for  the  great  damage  of  the 
common  wealth.  I  do  therefore  require  and  command  yow,  that 
yow  take  spetiale  care  that  Matthew  Hutton,  of  Marske,  in  the 
county  of  Yorke,  Esq^,  bee  not  plundered,  pillaged,  nor  any 
way  injured  in  his  person,  howses,  or  goodes,  by  those  in  the 
service  of  the  King  and  Parlament :  provided  that  the  party 
protected  shall  hereafter  yeild  obedience  unto,  observe,  and  per- 
forme  all  orders,  ordinances,  and  directions  sent  from  the  High 
Court  of  Parlament  to  bee  executed  in  this  county  by  any  com- 
missioners, sequestrators,  or  other  persons  authorised  in  that  be- 
halfe.  Given  under  my  hand  and  scale  att  York  the  ffifth  day 
of  August,  1644. 

Fer.  Fairfax. 

(Armorial  seal  of  eight  quart erings.) 


No.  CLXIX. 


BY    THE    COMISSIONERS    FOR    THE    COUNTY    OF    DURHAM    FOR 
SECURINGE    THE    PEACE    OF    THE    COMMONWEALTH. 

Darlington,  May  the  22,  1656. 

JpoN  the  conslderacion  of  severall  writeings  relateinge  to  the 
estate  of  Math.  Hutton,  Esq'.,  it  is  thought  fitt  and  soe  ordered 
that  the   order  for  decimacion   of  the  said   INIathcw    Hutton  s 


262  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC 

estate  in  this  countye  shall  contiuevv,  in  regard  the  comissioners 
have  noe  satisfacioii  as  yet  to  alter  the  former  order. 
This  is  a  true  copy  of  the  order, 

'  ex.  per  John  Jopling,  Gierke. 


No.   CLXX. 


LICENCE   TO    MATTHEW    HUTTON,  ESQ.,  AND  BARBARA    HIS  WIFE, 
TO  EAT  FLESH  IN  LENT. 

11  Feb.  1661-2. 

JosEPHus  Oradock  miles,  legum  doctor,  in  et  per  totiim 
Archidiacoiiatiim  Richmondise  Cestrensis  dioceseos  commissarius 
legitime  constitutus,  ac  Reverendissimi  in  Christo  patris 
domini,  domini  Accepti  providentia  divina  Eboracensis  Archie- 
piscopi,  Angliffi  primatis  et  metropolitani,  ad  quern  omnis  et 
omnimoda  jurisdictio  spiritualis  et  ecclesiastica  quae  ad  episcopum 
Cestriai  sede  plena  pertinuit  (ipsa  sede  jam  vacante)  notorle  dinos- 
citur  pertinere,  vicarius  in  spiritualibus  generalis  et  officialis  prin- 
cipalis in  et  per  totum  Archidiaconatum  predictum  legitime 
authorizatus,  dilectis  nobis  in  Christo  Mattha^o  Hutton  de  Rich- 
mond in  Com.  Ebor.  armigero  et  Barbarse  uxori  ejus,  salutem  in 
Domino.  Cum  nobis  satis  cognitum  est,  quod  vos  corporis  infir- 
mitatibus  adeo  detenti  estis  ut  omnium  piscium  quantumvis  salu- 
brium  esus  vobis  valetudinibusque  vestris  admodum  incommodet 
et  periculosus  sit,  nos  igitur  quo  melius  et  expediting  rebus 
divinis  animum  et  corpus  vestra  accommodetis,  vobis  a  die 
datffi  presentium  hoc  tempore  Quadragesimali  jam  instante, 
aliisque  temporibus  prohibitis,  carnibus  vesci  facultatem  et 
licentiam  (quantum  in  nobis  est)  benigne  concedimus  et  imper- 
timur  per  presentes ;  nihilominus  in  Domino  hortantes  et  requi- 
rentes  ut  hac  licentia  sive  facultate  ita  caute  utemini  ut  scandali 
inde  causa  in  aliqua  parte  non  existat.  Data  sub  sigillo  Officij 
nostri  quo  in  hac  parte  utimur  undecimo  die  mensis  Februarij 
Anno  Dili.  1661. 

Mar.  Cottle,  Registrarius. 

(Jos.  Cradock.     Official  seal  with  the  amis  of  Cradock.) 


MATTHEW    HUTTON.  263 


No.  CLXXI. 


to  the  right  worshipfull  mathew  hutton,  of  marske, 
esq.,  the  humble  peticion  of  the  inhabitants  of  war- 
ton,  and  the  parishioners  thereof,  in  lancashire, 

Humbly  sheweth, 

That  whereas  your  most  reverend  and  religious  ancestors,  forth 
of  theire  charitable  consideration,  have  beene  pleased  to  erect  a 
free  schole  and  the  hospitall  of  Jhesu  within  the  parrish  of  Warton, 
and  to  allow  such  sufficient  mainteynance  thereunto  that  may  be 
memorable  to  posteritie ;  and,  in  pursuance  of  theire  religious  in- 
tentions, your  worship  hath  beene  pleased  to  ratifie  the  same  with 
all  reall  performances. 

Now  soe  it  is,  may  it  please  your  worship,  that  Sir  Henry 
Bellingshame,  Knight  and  Barronet,  Edmund  Cleburne,  Esq^, 
beinge  ffeoffees  appoynted,  are  now  deade ;  and  Sir  Philhp  Mus- 
grave  is  not  in  theise  parts  resident ;  and  Mr.  Curwen,  then 
schoolmaster,  beinge  from  thence  called  to  other  preferment ;  the 
revenues  belonginge  to  the  ffree  schole  and  hospitall  are  not  dis- 
posed of  accordinge  to  theire  first  and  full  intentions,  as  evidently 
may  be  made  appeare,  but  converted  to  private  and  sinister  uses. 
May  it  therefore  please  your  worship,  upon  mature  considera- 
tion, that  such  care  may  be  taken  that  they  greivances  may  be 
made  appeare,  and  such  feoftees  appoynted,  that,  all  obstructions 
beinge  removed,  the  passage  may  be  made  cleare,  and  the  current 
runne  accordinge  to  the  ffirst  intentions. 
And  your  peticioners  shall  ever  pray,  &c. 

John  Croft.  Richard  Fuller. 

Thomas  Nicholson.  William  Fell. 

Laurence  Washington.    Robert  Bindlos. 

William  Fletcher,  W.    Robert  Middelton. 

John  Nighols.-{-  Richard  Walker,  minister. 

Rob.  Millin.  John  Crofte. 

Thos,  HowsEMAN.-f-  RoBERT  Hadwen,  scnior. 

Rob.  HowsEMAN.-f-  Robte.  Hadwen,  junior. 

Matthew  Hutton.  James  Lucas. 

Rob.  Backhouse.  Ra.  Wilson. 

Some  that  have  beene  messingers  for  the  poore  men  to  your 
worship  have  had  5"^  ode  moneys  for  speakinge  to  your  worship. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


267 


No.  CLXXII. 

A    PROCLAMATION    MADE    BY    THE    REBELLS    FOR    AYD    WHEN 
THEY    WE  ARE    UP. 

1569.     (The  11th  Bundcll,  201.) 

Whbras  it  Ir.ilth  bene  by  the  syuester  and  wicked  reporte  of 
.suiidrye  malicious  persons,  ennymes  both  to  God's  worde  and 
the  publicke  estate  of  this  conionwelth,  devised  and  puplished 
that  the  assemblye  of  thes  noble  men  therles  of  Northumberland 
and  Westmerland,  and  sxmdrie  of  the  greatest  M'orshippe  and 
credit  of  this  parte  of  the  realme,  is  and  haith  bene  to  the  over- 
throwe  of  the  comouwelthe  and  the  Crowne ;  it  is  therfor 
thoughte  good  to  the  said  earles  and  there  counsell  to  signifie  to 
all  and  everye  the  Quene's  Majestie's  subjects  the  trewe  and  sin- 
ceare  meaninge  of  the  said  earles,  theyre  freynds  and  allies.  Knowe 
ye  therfore,  that  wher  of  late  it  haith  bene  faithfullye  and  de- 
liberatelye  consydered  and  devised  by  the  heighe  and  meightye 
prince,  Thomas  Duke  of  Northfolke,  Henrye  Earle  of  Arrundell, 
William  Earle  of  Penbrocke,  and  the  .said  Earles  of  Northum- 
berland and  Westmerland,  and  diverse  other  of  th'ancient 
nobilitye  of  this  realme,  with  a  common  consent  of  sundrye  the 
priucipall  favorers  of  God's  worde  ;  and  the  same,  as  well  for  the 
avoidance  of  blodeshed  and  utter  subversion  of  the  commonwelth, 
as  the  reformiuge  of  certayne  disorders  crepte  in  by  the  abuse 
and  malicious  practise  of  sundrie  wicked  and  evell-disposed  per- 
sons, to  make  knowen  and  understode  to  all  maner  of  persons  to 
whome  of  meare  reighte  the  trewe  succession  of  the  Crowne  ap- 
pertaynethe,  dangerouslye  and  uncerteynelye  dependinge,  by 
reason  of  manye  titles  and  enterest  pretendyd  to  the  same:  the 
which  godlye  and  honorable  meanynge  of  the  said  nobilitye  hath 
bene  sought  by  all  maner  of  meanes  to  be  prevented  by  certeyne 
common  ennymes  of  this  realme,  nere  about  the  Queue's  Majestie's 
person ;  by  whose  synester  and  detestable  counsell  and  practise, 
well  knowen  to  us  and  the  rest  of  the  nobilytye,  theyre  lives  and 


268  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

libertyes  ar  nowe  inclangered,  and  dalye  devises  made  to  appre- 
hend our  bodyes,  the  trewe  remayne  of  theyre  vertuons  coun- 
sells  and  entent,  the  which  there  must  an  ambitious  poheye 
and  practises  con',  which  can  by  no  submission  of  our  parts  be 
avoyded,  but  onelye  by  sworde  (sic)  ;  we  have  therfor,  of  just 
and  faithfull  meyninge  to  the  Quene's  Majestic,  hir  common 
welth,  and  the  trewe  successors  of  the  same,  assembled  our  selves 
to  resist  force  by  force ;  werin  we  commit  our  selves,  seinge  no 
intercession  will  helpe,  to  the  exceedinge  goodnes  of  God  and  to 
all  trewe  favorers  of  this  realme  of  England,  resolved  in  our 
selves  in  this  so  just  and  godlye  an  enterprise  wholeye  to  ad- 
venter  our  lives,  lands,  and  goods,  wherto  Ave  hartelye  crave  the 
trewe  aide  and  assistans  of  all  the  faithfull  favorers  of  the  com- 
mon wealth,  and  th'ancient  nobilitie  of  the  same. 

God    save   the  Queue  [from  trators]  and  the   nobilitie 
[from  treason.] 


No.  OLXXIII. 


PRIVY    SEAL    TO    RICHARD    REMINGTON,    ARCHDEACON    OF    THE 
EAST    RIDING,    TO    LEND    THE    QUEEN    FIFTY    POUNDS. 

20  May,  1597. 

By  the  Queene. 
Trustie  and  well-beloved,  we  greete  you  well.  The  conty- 
nuall  greate  chardges  which  we  have  for  the  necessary  defence 
and  preservacion  of  our  dominions  and  subjects  are  soe  notorious 
as  neede  not  to  be  otherwise  declared  then  may  justlie  be  con- 
ceaved  by  all  our  lovinge  subjects  beinge  but  of  common  under- 
standinge.  And  therefore,  at  this  present,  findinge  cause  of  en- 
crease  and  contynuance  of  such  charges  exceedinge  all  other 
ordinarie  meanes,  and  not  myndinge  to  presse  our  subjects  with 
any  present  free  guifte  of  money,  but  onely  to  be  supplied  with 
some  reasonable  porcion  by  waie  of  loane  for  one  yeare's  space, 
we  have  made  speciall  choise  of  such  of  our  loving  subjects  as  are 
knowen  to  be  of  habilitye,  amongst  whome  we  accompte  you 
one.     And  therefore  we  requier  you,  by  these  presents,  to  leiide 

^  The  words  in  brackets  lire  in  the  hand  of  S''.  T.  Hutton. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


269 


US  the  somme  of  ffiftie  powndes  for  tlie  space  of  one  yeare,  and 
the  same  to  paie  unto  Thomas  Scudamore,  Esquier,  by  us  ap- 
pointed collector  thereof;  which  we  promise  to  repaie  to  you  or 
your  assignes  at  the  end  of  one  yeare  in  the  receipt  of  our  Ex- 
cheaquier  uppon  the  shewinge  of  this  privie  scale,  subscribed  by 
the  said  collector,  testyfiinge  the  receipt  thereof.  Gyven  under 
our  privie  seale,  at  our  mannor  of  Grenewich,  the  xx*''  dale  of 
May  in  the  xxxix"'  yeare  of  our  raigne. 


Tho.  Kery. 


27  Julij,  1597. 


Received  then,  to  the  use  of  our  said  Soveraigne  Lady  the 
Queen's  Majestie,  the  said  some  of  ffiftie  pounds  above  mencioned 
in  this  privie  seale. 


£..L  .  .  recept.  per  me, 


Thomas  Scudamore. 


To  our  trustie  and  welbeloved  Richard  Remington, 
Archdeacon  of  Eastridinpf. 


No.  CLXXIV. 

PARTICULERS  CONFIRMED  BY  THE  DEANE  AND  CHAPTER  OF 
DURESME,  IN  THE  TYME  OF  RIC.  LATE  LORD  BISHOP  OF 
DURESME. 

A  breefe  note  of  the  particulers    demised    by   Ric.   late   Lord 
Bishop  of  Duresme  to  the  Queen's  Majestie. 


The  date  of  the 
indenture  and 
the  nombre  of 
yercs,  with  tlie 
annual  rent. 

The  last  dale  of 
Maij,  anno  Eliz. 
xix.     Ad  ter"'  c. 
annor.  per  ann. 
iiij'"'  ij"- 


1.  All  those  piscaries  and 
fiischings  in  the  water  of  Twede, 
in  revertion  or  in  possession, 
knowen  by  the  names  of  Hale- 
welstele,  Twedmouthsteyle, 
Goordo,  Blackwell,  Yerefforde, 
New-water,  Waltham,  Wil- 
forde,  Grenehill,  and  Pedwell, 
within  the  liberties  of  Nor- 
ham  and  Norhamshire,  and  the 
countie  of  Northumberland, 
with  all  manner  of  rents,  issues, 
profitts,  and  preheminences  to 
the  premisses  belonging. 


The  daie  of  the 
confirmation. 

vii  die  mcnsis 
Aug.  1577,  anno- 
que  Eliz.  R.  xix. 


270 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


xvy'i"  daie  of 
A  prill,  anno  Eliz. 
Reg.  XX.     Ad 
ter™  xl  annor. 
p.  ann.  xxvij". 
xviij^  viijd. 


xx°  daie  of  June, 
ao  Ehz.  R.  XX. 
Ad  ter™  L.  an- 
norum,p.  ann. 
xviij". 


xiiij  die  mensis 
Maij,  a"  Eliz.  R. 
xxiij.     Ad  tev™ 
80  annor.  p. 
ann.  xxvj''.  ix^ 
viijd. 
ccxl'"*  acres. 


2.  All  those  the  water  mllnes 
in  Darlington,  and  the  water 
mylne  in  Black  well,  &c.,  one 
messuage  or  tenement  called 
Raker,  with  th'appurtenances 
and  those  severall  pastures  for 
all  kinde  of  beasts  in  Wiske 
more  upon  Caperige,  in  the 
countie  of  Yorke,  extendinge 
fi'om  thence  unto  the  pasture 
called  Hopperton  leises,  with 
fre  egress  and  regress  to  the 
water  called  Syningmyre. 

3.  All  that  the  rectorie  and 
parsonage  of  Leake,  in  the 
countie  of  York,  and  all  man- 
ner of  tiethes,  oblacions,  &c.  to 
the  same  belonging  (except  the 
advowson,  gift,  presentacion, 
and  collacion  of  the  vicarage  of 
Leake). 

4.  All  that  his  manor  or 
grange  of  Midrige,  with  th""  ap- 
purtnences,  one  water  milne, 
xxj.  oxegangs,  and  five  acre  of 
arable  lande,  lying  betwene 
Kimbleborne  and  Midrisfeborne, 
of  the  east  side  of  the  said 
manor  or  grange  ;  ccxl.  acres  of 
land  lying  of  the  west  side  of 
the  said  manor  or  grange  ;  iiij'"' 
acres  and  a  halfe  of  meadowe  ; 
clviij  acres  of  pasture ;  thre- 
score  daie  worke  in  corne  or 
harvest  of  divers  his  tennents 
and  others  in  the  townes  of 
Midrige,  Killerbie,  Redworth ; 
and  also  all  and  singuler  mes- 
suages, cotages,  lands,  mea- 
dowes,  feadings,  and  pastures, 


xxvij  die  mensis 
April.  1578,  an- 
noq.  Eliz.  R.  xx°. 


xxj°  die  mensis 
Junij  an.  Dni 
1578  ;  a"  Eliz. 
R.  xx". 


xxiiijo  die  mensis 
Octobr.  a"  Dui 
1583 ;  a«  Eliz. 
Rne.  XXV. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


271 


xxiiij  die  Octobr, 
a".  Eliz.  Reginae, 
xxiiij.     Th'old 
and  accustomed 
rent.     Ad  ter™ 
iiij''^  annor. 


xiij"  die  Julij,  a° 
Eliz.  Rne.  xxvj. 
Ad  tcr™  iiij^"*^  x 
annor.  per  ann. 
xxxiiij".  viij<*. 


rents,  reversions,  and  services, 
woodes,  underwooddes,  waistes, 
moores,  and  commons,  &c. 

5.  All  those  his  park  com- 
monly called  Wolsingham  park; 
the  water  milne  of  Wolsing- 
ham ;  one  peece  of  grounde 
called  the  Chappell  walles  ;  the 
grange  of  Quarrington,  within 
the  countie  of  Duresme  :  the 
manor  or  grange  of  Sowerbie 
under  Cotecliff,  and  a  meadow 
called  Sowerbie  Inge ;  and  also 
all  manner  his  howses,  &c.  to 
the  premisses  belonging,  except 
all  wooddes  and  underwooddes 
within  the  said  park  of  Wol- 
singham ;  all  manner  of  ffees 
and  dewties  belonging  to  the 
keepers  there  ;  and  all  mynes 
of  coales  and  leade  within  the 
said  park. 

6.  All  that  his  mannor  house 
at  Howden,  in  the  countie  of 
Yorke,  called  the  Bishopes 
howse,  or  hallgarthe,  with  all 
his  howses  and  buildings  there  ; 
the  orcherd  and  fruit  howse, 
and  the  closes  and  groundes 
called  Treatons,  conteyning  by 
estimacion  x.  acres,  lying  and 
being  about  the  said  orcherd 
and  manor  howse  and  to  the 
same  belonging,  with  th'ap- 
purtenances;  together  with  suffi- 
cient fier  boate,  to  be  had  and 
taken  yerely  forthe  of  Howden 
Park,  to  be  spent  in  the  said 
manor  only  :  that  meadow  close 
there  called  the  Receivor's  Close; 


xvij°  die  mcnsis 
Octobr.  a"  Dili 
1584,  annoquc 
Eliz.  Resf.  xxvi'o. 


xvij  die  mensis 
Octobr.  a"  Dili 
1584,  et  a"  Eliz. 
Rne.  xxvj'°. 


272  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

xiijo  die  Julij,  a»      another    close    called    Yaude-      ^'''^i  ^^ie  mensis 
Eliz.  Rne.  xxvj.         n    .  •      tt        i  .  Octobr.  a°  Dni 

Ad  ter'"  iiij^"  X         nates,   in   Howden  ;   one  tene-      1534,  et  a°  Eliz. 
annor.  per  ann.         ment,    also    one     close    and   a      Rne.  xxvj'". 
xxxiiij''.  viijd.  headland  at  Howden  dike  ;  and 

five  acres  of  lande  in  Howden 

felds,  called  Le  Poole,  with  one 

slypp    of   grounde    called    the 

Springe  ;   and  a  tenement  also 

at  Booth,  in  Howden  aforesaid ; 

all    that    the    towle,    stallage, 

shoppes,    and    pickage    of  the 

faire  and  marketts  of  Howden 

aforesaid  ;  and  one  howse  called 

the  Mootehall  or  Towlebothe  in 

Howden    aforesaid,    with    the 

shoppes  and  all  easements  under 

the  towlebooth  there ;  six  acres 

of  arable   lande  in  the  heigli- 

felde    of  Howden ;    one    close 

lying    at    Hallgaite    ende    in 

Howden    aforesaid,    and    one 

tyde  ffishing   in  the  water   of 

Owse,    in    Howdenshire  :    all 

which    premisses    are    now    in 

the  tenure  and  occupacion  of 

John  Gaite,  Esquier  :   also  two 

closes    called    the    Hall    niilns 

closes,    which,    with   a  parcell 

of  grounde   called  the   Small- 

ings,    in    Howden    aforesaid  ; 

one  other  close  called  Munck- 

ton  Close,  behinde  Treaton,  in 

Howden    aforesaid ;   vij.   acres 

of  lande   in  Laxton,  in  How- 
denshire    aforesaid  ;    and    iiij"' 

acres  of  lande  in  Netherspane 

briggs,    in    Howden    afores''. ; 

tow  other  peces  of  ground  in 

Howden   aforesaid,  called  the 

Parke  and  the  groves  now  or 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


'Sio 


xvijo  die  Jan.  a" 
Eliz.  Rne.  xxvij". 
Ad  ter'"  Ixx  an- 
nor.  p.  ann.  Ixij". 
xxd. 


xv"  die  Octobr. 
a"  Eliz.  Rne. 
xxiij".     Ad  tei"' 
iiij""  annor.  p. 
ann.  xviij''.  xij''. 


late  in  the  tenin-e  of  Alee  Pil- 
kingtoii,  wydow;  together  with 
thre  wind  eorne-milnes,  called 
Barnebie  Milne,  Kilpin  Milne, 
and  Hale  Milne,  in  Howden 
and  Howdenshire  aforesaid, 
with  all  socken,  &c. 

7.  All  that  grange,  iFarme, 
or  tenement  commonlie  called 
Cowden  Grange  ;  and  all  that 
the  manor,  iFarme,  or  towne  of 
Morton,  nere  Houghton,  in  the 
countie  of  Duresme  ;  and  also 
all  those  xiij.  messuages,  lands, 
and  tenements  within  the  parke 
of  Stanhopj),  called  Stanhopp 
Park,  in  Werdaile,  within  the 
said  countie  palatyne  of  Du- 
resme, at  a  place  called  the 
Westgate,  and  to  the  sea  of  the 
Bisshoprick  of  Duresme  apper- 
tayning,  and  now  or  late  in  the 
severall  occupacion  of  William 
Stobbes,  Nich.  Fetherston, 
Raphe  Emerson  of  the  Springe 
Howse,  William  Emevsonn, 
Wydow  Bainbrige,  Georg. 
Miers,  John  Emerson.  William 
Harison,  George  Robinson, 
Thomas  Yong,  John  Frier, 
Nich.  Stobbes,  and  Raph 
Stobbes,  with  all  howses,  &c. ; 
and  also  one  close,  called  Bishop 
Close,  or  Skelton  cowe  pasture  ; 
and  one  other  close,  called  the 
Bishop  Close,  or  salt-marshe 
cowe  pasture. 

8.  All  those  landes,  mead- 
oAves,  pastures,  feadinges,  called 
or  knowenby  thenaine  or  names 


xxj^die  mensis 
Julij,a°Dnil585. 


Primo  die  mensis 
Dccebr.  a"  Dni 
loSo  ;  a"  Eliz. 
line,  xxviij". 

T 


274 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


Mr.  Frevill's 
lease. 


xxix°  die  Septbr. 
a°  Eliz.  R.xxviij. 
Ad  tor"'  iiij""  an- 
11  or.  p.  ami.  these 
severall rents,  viz. 
for  tliat  part  in 
Francis  Slinges- 
bie's  lease,  and 
during  that  lease, 
xx''.  vj*.  iiij*^ ;  and 
after  that  lease 
be  ended,  then 
p.  ann.  for  that 
part,  Ij".  xxiij'' ; 
p.ann.forWhele- 
hall,  &c.,  v". 
xviij^  viij^  ;  for 
the  little  close 
and  niilnc,  xx^^*. 
8^  ;  for  the  fish- 
ing,  XX*   ;  for 
the  new  close, 
v".  xvj*.  iiij'' ; 
for  Assell  Croft, 
Whit  Croft,  and 
Morefeld,  vj".  v*. 
ij** ;  for  the  de- 
mayne  lands  of 
Walkington  and 
Welton  yngs, 
xij''.  ;  for  Wal- 
kington woods, 
iiij'' ;  for  the  fish- 


of  Bishop's  Close,  with  all  and 
singuler  th'appurtenances  situ- 
ate, lying,  and  being  nere  Byers 
Greene,  in  the  countie  of  Du- 
resme ;  and  also  all  that  park, 
with  th'appurtenances,  in  Bi- 
shop's Midleham,  in  the  said 
counte  of  Durham ;  and  all 
landes  and  tenements  and  de- 
mayne  lands  whatsoever  called 
or  knowen  by  the  name  or 
names  of  the  Demayne  landes 
of  the  manor  of  Midleham,  in 
the  said  countie  palatyne  of 
Durham,  &c.,  with  one  acre  of 
land  called  Depewell,  in  the 
feildes  of  Midleham  aforesaid. 
9.  All  that  the  said  manor, 
scite,  and  mansion  place  of 
Crake,  with  th'appurtnans  ; 
and  all  hoAvses,  edifices,  and 
buildings,  messuages,  granges, 
milnes,  barnes,  stables,  dove 
howses,  orcherdes,  gardines, 
landes,  tenements,  meadowes, 
pastures,  feadings,  commons,  de- 
mayne landes,  waistes,  heathes, 
mores,  marrishes,  woodes,  mider- 
wooddes,  waters,  ffishe  pondes, 
fishings,  mores,  mynes,  quar- 
ries, king's  fees,  wardes,  mari- 
ages,  relieffes,  hariots,  ffynes, 
amerciments,  courts  leetes, 
courts  baron,  viewes  of  ftranck- 
pledg,  perquisites,  and  profitts 
of  courts,  and  all  other  things 
unto  courts  leetes  and  vewes 
of  ftranckpledge  belonging  ; 
waifes,  stray,  estovers,  and  com- 
mon of  estovers,  and  all  other 


xxiij"  die  mensis 
Novembr,  a° 
Eliz   Rne.  xxix. 


MISCELLANEOUS.  275 


'jl^^d'^'"^""^^''''*'      "^^its,   members,    jurisdictions, 
%y.  4" ;  and  tor  ^,         .  .  ... 

the  liver,  xij^.  Itranchises,  priviledges,  profitts, 

and  comodities  whatsoever  unto 
the  said  manor  and  scite  of  the 
manor  of  Craik  aforesaid  be- 
longing, &c.  ;  (the  patronage, 
gift,  presentacion,  and  coUacion 
of  and  to  the  parsonage,  rec- 
torie,  and  church  of  Craik 
aforesaid,  and  one  parcell  of 
ground  called  the  Shawes,  and 
all  ecclesiasticall  and  spirituall 
jurisdicions  within  the  said 
manor  alwaies  except  and  fore- 
prised;)  also  all  the  wooddes 
and  underwoods  and  trees  now 
growing  and  renewing,  or  here- 
after to  grow  and  renew,  in  or 
upon  the  said  manor  of  Craike, 
or  other  the  last  recited  pre- 
misses, &c. 

All  that  the  manor  or  man- 
sion howse  of  Welehall,  and 
the  demayne  lande  therunto 
belonging,  in  the  countie  of 
Yorke,  &c. ;  and  also  the  fRshing 
at  or  nere  Welehall  aforesaid, 
in  the  water  or  river  of  Ouse  ; 
and  also  the  said  winde  milne 
and  litle  close  thereunto  nere 
adjoyning,  &c. ;  all  that  the 
said  close  called  the  New  Close 
at  Saltmarshe,  and  the  said 
closes  or  parcells  of  ground 
called  the  Assell  Crofts,  White 
Croft,  and  Morefeld ;  and  all 
the  landes  in  Walkington  afore- 
said called  or  knowen  by  the 
name  of  the  Demaynes  of  the 
towneof  Walkington  aforesaid ; 


T  2 


276  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

and  the  said  parcell  of  meadow 
or  inge  grounde  lying  in  Welton 
Ings  aforesaid  ;  and  also  all  the 
said  wooddes  andunderwooddes 
called  Walkington  wooddes, 
and  the  herbage  and  pawnage 
of  the  said  wooddes ;  and  also 
the  said  passage,  shoores,  fish- 
ing, and  ferye  hoate  at  Howden 
Dike  aforesaid  ;  and  the  said 
milne  in  Howden  aforesaid, 
with  all  sucken,  &c. ;  and  also 
all  water  courses,  ryvers,  dikes, 
or  sewers,  with  fisshing  and 
passage  by  boate,  or  other  waies 
in  and  upon  the  same,  running 
and  extending  from  the  river  of 
Owse  to  one  stone  bridsfe  in 
Howden  aforesaid,  in  one  street 
there  called  the  Briggate ;  to- 
gether with  all  howses,  tene- 
ments, and  hereditaments  what- 
soever unto  the  same  belong- 
inge,  or  as  part  thereof  hereto- 
fore had,  knowen,  occupied,  or 
injoyed,  &c. 

It  is  to  be  noted  that  the 
Queue  paieth  no  rent  for  any 
of  the  demised  premisses  in  the 
lease  of  Crake,   &c.  untill  the 

„„  .     .,    „  -r,..        former  leases  thereof  made  be 
26  April,  a".  Eliz. 

24.  expired. 

A  note  likewise  of  leases,  the  particulers  whereof  are  sett  downe, 
and  to  whome  they  were  granted  by  the  said  late  Lord  Bishop 
of  Dnresme. 

The  date  of  the  1.  To  Henrie  Lindley,  gent.  The  date  of  the 

indenture  and  the      ^^jj  ^j^^.^  j^-,  ^^^^^^      tenements,  ^^f;™'-^^-"; 

nomb'.  01  years  '  '  xv°  die  mensis 

graunted,  with         closes,  meadowes,  pastures,  com-  Octobr.  a°  Eliz. 

the  anuall  rent.        i^ons,  and  common  of  pasture,  ^-  25,  et  a°Dni 

'  ^  '  1583. 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


277 


xviij"  die  Noveb. 
a"  Eliz.  R.  25. 
Ad  ter""  21  an- 
nor.  i^.  anil.  vj". 

xj"  die  Junij,  a" 
Eliz.  Rne.  26. 
Ad  tei-m  21  an- 
nor.    Tlie  old  and 
accustomed  rent. 


ix°  die  Jan.  a" 
Eliz.  Rne.  xxv". 
Ad  ter™  21  an- 
nor.  p.  ann.  for 
every  pitt,  xiij^ 
iiiji. 


xx"  die  M''cij,  a** 
Eliz.  21.   Adter™ 
21  annor.p.  ann. 
xlvj^  iij''. 
P'mo  die  Febr. 
a°  Eliz.  Rne.  28. 
Ad  ter'"  21  an- 
nor.  p.  ann.  viij". 


vj"'  die  Januarij, 
a°  Eliz. Rne.  25. 
Ad  ter'"  vitar. 
ipsor.  Willmi. 
Robti.  etGeorgij, 
ct  eoruni  cujusli- 
bet  diutius  viven- 
tis. 


with  their  appurtnances,  in 
Cotam  Mundevell,in  the  county 
of  Durham,  called  the  Demaynes 
of  Cottam  Mundevell. 

2.  To  Henrie  Lyndley,  gent, 
one  parcell  of  grounde  called 
the  Groothes,  alias  Groves,  and 
the  herhage  of  one  parcell  of 
ground  or  park  called  Howden 
Park,  with  th'appurtnances,  in 
the  countie  of  York,  &c. 

8.  To  Henrie  Dethick,  gent, 
all  those  his  cole  mynees  and 
pitts  whatsoever,  ojjened  or  not 
opened,  within  any  of  the 
moores,  wastes,  or  copihold 
landes  within  the  parishe  of 
Lanchester,  &c. 

4.  To  Raphe  Hall,  one  tene- 
ment, with  the  appurtnances, 
in  Shawdforthe. 

5.  To  Rich*^.  Natteris,  the 
water  milne  of  Chester,  in  the 
street,  &c. ;  the  common  bake 
howse  there. 

6.  To  William  Bowes,  Ro- 
bert Bowes,  and  George  Bowes, 
sonnes  of  Sir  George  Bowees, 
knight,  one  parcell  of  ground 
commonly  knowen  by  the  name 
of  th**  Old  Parke  ;  and  also  one 
grounde  commonly  knowen  by 
the  name  of  the  Northwood, 
with  all  and  singuler  those 
closes  and  grounds,  parcell  of 
Eavenwood  Parke,  set,  lyinge, 
and  being  within  the  countie 
of  Durham  ;  together  with  all 
those  closes,  grounds,  whatso- 
ever,   parcell   or   belonging  to 


xvij"  die  mentis 
Oetobr.  a"  Eliz. 
Hue.  2(),  et  a" 
Dni  1584. 


xv°  die  mensis 
Jan.  a"  Dni  1584. 


xvjo  die  mensis 
Febr.  a°  Dni 
1584,  et  a"  Eliz. 
R.  xxvijo. 
xj  die  Oetobr.  a" 
Dni  1586,  et  a" 
Eliz.  R.  28°. 


Primo  die  mensis 
Mi-cij,  a"  Rne. 
Eliz.  xxix".  ct 
a°  Dni  1586. 


a"  supradicto. 


278  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

the  said  ground  called  the  Olde 
Parke,  and  the  Northwood,  par- 
cell  of  Eavenwood  Parke  afore- 
said, with  all  and  singuler  th' 
appurtances. 

vjo  die  Januanj,  7.   To  William   Bowes,    Ro-       Piimodiemensis 

a."  tihz.  line.  25,         ,         -r.  ■,  ^,  -^  tvt      ••        r  ^     * 

Ad  ter>"  vitar.  ut      ^©rt  Bowes,  and  George  Bowes,      ?'^I';^L^"IA 
supra,  p.  ann.  x".      sonnes   of  Sir   George   Bowes, 

knight,  all  that  parcell  of  ground 

called  the  Park  Meadowes,  and 

all  that  parcell  of  ground  called 

or    knowen    by   the    name    of 

Buckheades,  and  all  other  closes 

or  grounds  now  or  late  parcell 

of  Evenwood  Park,  within  the 

said  countie  of  Durham,  which 

are  not  conteyned  or  demised 

in  or  by  one  other  dede  in- 
dented, made  by  the  said  re- 
verend  father    unto    the    said 

William  Bowes,  Robert  Bowes, 

and  George  Bowes,  beriuge  daite 

the  daie  of  the  daite  of  these 

presents,  with  all  and  singulere 

th'appurtnances. 


No.  OLXXV. 

A    LOTTERIE    (210). 

At  her  Majesty's  entrie  into  the  howse.  Place  and  Time  pre- 
sented themselves  with  this  dialoQue. 

(Shee  came  thither  the  last  of  July.) 

Place,  in  a  partie-colored  roabe,  lyke  (  Wellcome,  good 
the  brickes  of  the  howse.  "l  Tyme  ! 

T?/me,  with  yellowe  haire  and  a  greene  f  Goddene,  my  li- 
roabe,  and  an  houre-glasse  not  runninge,  4  tie  prettie  private 
and  his  winges  clipte.  (  Place  ! 


MISCELLANEOUS.  279 

Place. — Farwell,  Time,  arre  you  not  gone?  doe  you  stay 
heare  ?  I  wonder  that  Time  should  stay  any  wheare,  what  is 
the  cause  ? 

Time. — Yf  thou  knewest  the  cause,  thou  wouldst  not  wonder, 
for  I  stay  to  enterteine  the  wonder  of  this  time ;  whearein  I 
woulde  praie  thee  to  joyne  with  mee,  yf  thou  werte  not  too  litle 
for  her  greatnes. 

Place. — Too  Htle  \  By  that  reason  shee  shoulde  rest  no  place; 
for  no  place  is  greate  enoughe  to  receive  her.     Besides — 

Tyme. — Well,  well,  this  is  not  time  for  us  to  enterteine  one 
another,  when  wee  shoulde  bothe  joyne  to  enterteine  her.  Arre 
you  redie,  Place  \     Time  is  redie. 

Place. — So  yt  shoulde  seeme  ;  you  arre  soe  gay,  freshe,  and 
chearefnll :  you  arre  the  present  time,  arre  you  not  ?  Then  what 
neede  you  make  suche  haste?  And,  lett  mee  see,  your  winges  arre 
clipte  for  ought  I  see  :  besides,  your  hower-glasse  runnes  not. 

Time. — 'Tis  true  my  winges  arre  clipte  indeede,  and  yt  is  her 
hande  that  hathe  clipped  them  :  my  glasse  runnes  not  indeede,  yt 
hathe  beene  stopte  a  longe  time  :  yt  can  never  runne  as  longe  as 
I  waite  upon  this  mistris.  I  am  her  time,  and  time  were  verie 
ungratefull  yf  yt  shoulde  not  ever  stande  still  to  serve,  preserve, 
cherishe,  and  delighte  her,  that  is  the  glorie  of  her  time,  and 
makes  the  time  happie  whearein  she  lives. 

Place. — And  dothe  shee  not  make  Place  happie  as  well  as 
Time  ?  What  if  shee  make  thee  a  continuall  holydaye,  shee 
makes  mee  a  perpetuall  sanctuarie  I  Dothe  not  the  presence  of  a 
prince  make  a  cottage  a  courte  ?  and  the  presence  of  the  gods 
make  everie  place  heaven  ?  But  alas,  my  litlenes  is  not  capable 
of  that  happienes  which  her  great  grace  woulde  imparte  unto  me : 
but,  were  I  as  large  as  theire  hartes  that  arre  my  owners,  I 
shoulde  bee  the  fairest  pallace  in  the  worlde  ;  and,  were  I  agree- 
able to  the  wishes  of  theire  hartes,  I  should  in  some  measure  re- 
semble her  sacred  self,  and  bee  in  the  outwarde  front  exceedinge 
faire,  and  in  the  inwarde  furniture  exceedinge  riche. 

Time. — In  good  time  doe  you  remember  the  hartes  of  your 
owners  :  for,  as  I  was  passinge  to  this  place,  I  founde  this  liarte, 
which  (as  my  daughter  Truthe  toulde  me)  was  stollen  by  one  of 
these  nimphes  from  one  of  the  servants  of  this  goddesse ;  but,  her 
guiltie  conscience  enformiuge  her  that  yt  belonged  onelie  of  right 

*"  A  diamond  without  ;i  f'oylf,  wliicli  cost  3U0''  {in  llie  iiuugin). 


280  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

unto  her  that  is  the  mistres  of  all  the  hartes  in  the  worlde,  she 
cast  yt  from  her  for  this  time,  and,  Opportunitle  finding  yt,  deli- 
vered yt  mito  mee,  Heere,  Place,  take  yt  thowe,  and  present 
yt  unto  her  as  a  pledge  and  mirror  of  theire  hartes  that  owe  thee. 
Place. — It  is  a  mirror  in  deede,  for  yt  is  transparent ;  yt  is  a 
cleere  hart,  you  maie  see  throughe  yt;  yt  hathe  no  close  corners, 
no  darknes,  noe  undutiefull  spott  in  yt.  I  will  therefore  presume 
the  more  to  deliver  yt ;  with  this  assurance,  that  time,  place,  and 
persons,  and  all  other  circumstances  doe  concurre  alltogether  in 
biddinge  her  wellcome. 

Besides,  my  la- \       The  petition  of  St.  S  within,  i      Presented  by 
die  gave  unto  \  presentinge  a  gowne  of  clothe  -<  my    lord,     and 
this   gowne    a  1  of    silver    all    wrought     with  (  cost  840^. 
verie  riche         I  rainebowes. 
paire  of  sleeves  f 

and  a  j^aire  of /Bewtie's  Rose  and  Vertue's  booke, 
poyntes,      the  I  AngelFs  minde,  and  AngelPs  looke, 
taggeswhearof  1      To  all  Saintes  and  Angells  deare, 
weere  of  rubies  I  Clearest  Majestic  on  earthe, 
and  pearle.        /  Heavens  did  smile  at  your  faire  birthe ; 
And  since  your  daies  have  beene  most  cleere, 
Onehe  poore  St.  Swithin  nowe 
Dothe  heare  you  blame  this  cloudie  browe. 
But  that  poore  Sainte  devoutlie  sweares, 
Yt  is  but  a  tradition  vaine 
That  his  muche  weepinge  causethe  raine  ; 
For  saintes  in  heaven  can  shedd  no  teares  : 
But  this  hee  saiethe,  that  to  his  feasts 
Commes  Iris,  an  unbidden  miest. 

With  her  moist  robe  of  colours  graye ; 
And,  when  shee  comes,  shee  e^en  staies 
For  the  full  space  of  fortie  daies, 

And,  more  or  lesse,  raines  everie  daye. 
But  hee,  good  Sainte,  when  once  hee  knewe 
This  raine  was  like  to  fall  on  yowe. 

If  Saintes  could  weepe,  had  wepte  as  muche 
As  when  hee  did  the  ladye  leade 
That  did  on  burninge  iron  treade; 
To  ladies  his  respecte  is  such. 


MISCELLANEOUS.  281 

Hee  gentile  furste  badd  Iris  goe 
Unto  the  Antipodes  belowe  : 

But  shee  for  this  more  sullen  gTewe. 
When  hee  sawe  that,  with  angrie  looke 
Her  rainye  robe  from  her  hee  tooke, 

Which  heare  hee  dothe  presente  to  you : 
'Tis  fitt  yt  shoulde  with  you  remaine, 
For  you  knowe  better  howe  to  raigne. 

Yett  if  yt  raine  still,  as  before, 
St.  Swithen  praies  that  you  woulde  guesse 
That  Iris  dothe  more  robes  possesse, 

And  that  you  woulde  blame  him  no  more. 

A    LOTTERIE. 

The  introduction  thereof  was  in  this  manner. 

A  marriner,  withe  a  boxe  under  his  arme,  conteineinge  all  the 
severall  thinges  heareafter  written,  supposed  to  come  newlie  from 
the  caricke,  came  into  the  presence  singing  this  songe : 

Cinthia,  queene  of  seaes  and  landes. 

That  fortune  everie  where  comaundes, 

Sente  for  Fortune  to  the  sea. 

To  trie  her  service  euerie  way: 
There  did  I  Fortune  meete,  which  makes  mee  nowe  to  singe 
There  is  no  fishinge  to  the  sea,  nor  ser\ace  to  the  kinge. 

All  the  nimphes  of  Thetis'  traine 

Did  Cinthiaes  fortune  entertaine  ; 

Manie  a  Jewell,  many  a  jemme. 

Was  to  her  fortune  brought  by  them : 
Her  fortune  spedd  so  well,  as  makes  mee  nowe  to  singe, 
There  is  no  fishinge  to  the  sea,  nor  service  to  the  kinge. 

Fortune,  that  yt  might  bee  scene 

That  shee  did  serve  a  royall  queene, 

A  franke  and  royall  hand  did  beare, 

And  cast  her  favours  everie  wheare  : 
Somme  toyes  fell  to  my  share,  which  makes  mee  nowe  to  singe, 
There  is  no  fishinge  to  the  sea,  nor  service  to  the  kinge. 

God  save  you,  ladies  all !  and  for  my  parte,  if  ever  I  be  brought 
to  answer  for  my  sinnes,  God  forgive  mee  my  stealinge,  and  lay 
usurie  to  my  charge.     I  am  a  marriner,  and  am  nowe  come  from 


282 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC, 


the  sea,  where  I  had  the  fortune  to  lighte  on  these  trifles.  I 
must  confesse  I  came  hut  hghtHe  by  them :  but  I  no  sooner  had 
them  but  I  made  a  vowe,  that,  as  they  came  to  my  handes  by 
fortune,  soe  I  woulde  not  parte  from  them  but  by  fortune;  and 
to  that  endelhave  ever  since  carried  these  lottes  about  mee,  that, 
if  I  niett  with  fitt  companie,  I  mighte  devide  my  bootie  amongst 
them:  and  nowe,  I  thanke  my  good  fortune,  I  am  fallen  into  the 
best  companie  of  the  worlde,  a  companie  of  the  fairest  ladies  that 
ever  I  sawe.  Comme,  ladies,  trie  your  fortunes ;  and,  yf  any 
light  upon  an  unfortunate  lott,  lett  her  thiuke  that  Fortune  dothe 
but  mocke  with  her  in  these  trifles,  and  meanes  to  doe  her  a 
pleasure  in  a  greater  matter. 


THE    LOTTERIE 


61 


FORTUNE  S    WHEELES    SETT    WITH    DIAMONDS    OF    NO    SMALL    VALUE. 

The  Queene.        Fortune  must  nowe  no  more  in  triumphe  ride. 
The  wheeles  are  yours  that  did  her  chariot  guide. 


The  La. 

Scroope. 


A    MASKE. 


Wante  you  a  maske?  here  Fortune  gives  you  one ; 
Yet  Nature  gives  the  rose  and  lillie  none. 


A    LOOKING- GLASSE. 

The  La.  Kne-  Blinde  Fortune  dothe  not  see  howe  faire  you  bee, 
vett.  But  gives  a  glasse  that  you  yourself  may  see. 

A    HANDKERCHER. 

M'^AnneVa-  Whether  you  seeme  to  weepe,  or  weepe  indeede, 
vasor,  of  the  This  handkercher  will  stande  you  in  some 
bedchamber.  steede. 


The  La.  Fran-     Fortune  dothe  sende  you,  happ  yt  well  or  ill, 
ces  Stanley.          This  plaine  goulde  ringe  to  wedd  you  to  your 
will.    . 


A     PAIRE     OF    GLOVES. 

The  La.  Eliza.     Fortune  these  gloves  to  you  in  challenge  sendes, 
Southwell.  For  that  you  love  not  fooles  that  arre  her  frendes. 

*''  The  names  in  the  margin  indicate  the  diavN'cr  ui'  each  lut. 


MISCELLANEOUS.  283 


A    PURSE. 

The  La.  Dar-     Yowe  thrive,  or  woulde,  or  may :  your  lott  's  a 
bie,  the  elder.  purse; 

Fill  yt  with  goulde,  and  you  arre  nere  the  worse. 

A    DOSSEN    OF    POINTES. 

M'^\  Bridges.        Yowe  arre  in  everie  pointe  a  lover  true, 

And  therefore  Fortune  gives  the  pointes  to  you. 

A    LACE. 

The  La.  Anne     Gave  her  the  lace  that  loves  to  be  strate  laced, 
ClifForde.  Soe  Fortune's  litle  gifte  is  aptlie  placed. 

KNIVES. 

Fortune  dothe  give  theis  pairs  of  knives  to  you, 
To  cutt  the  thredd  of  love  ifte  bee  not  true. 

A    GIRDLE. 

The  Countess       By  Fortune^3  girdle  you  male  happie  bee, 

of  Kildare.  But  they  that  arre  lesse  happie  arre  more  free. 

WRITINGE    TABLES. 

The    La.    Ef-     Theis  tables   maye   containe   your  thoughts   in 
fingham.  parte, 

But  write  not  all  thatt  "'s  written  in  your  hartc. 

A    PAIRE    OF    GARTERS. 

TheLa.Pagett.    Thoughe  you  have  Fortune's  garters,  you  must 
bee 
More  staled  and  constante  in  your  steps  then  shee. 

COYFE    AND    CROSCLOTHE. 

M'^\  Stran-  Frowne  in  good  earnest,  or  bee  sickc  in  jeaste, 

guidg.  This  coyfe  and  crosclothe  will  becomme  you  best. 

A    SKARFE. 

The  mother  of     Take  you  this  skarfe,  binde  Cupid  hand  and  foote, 
the  maides.  Soe  Love  must  aske  your  leave  before  hee  shoote. 


284  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

A     FALLING     BANDE. 

The    Countess     Fortune  would  have  jou  rise,  but  guides  your 

of  Comber-  hande 

land.  From  other  lotts,  to  take  this  falling  bande. 

A    STOMACHER. 

This  stomacher  is  full  of  windowes  wroughte, 
Yet    none    throughe    them    can  looke  into  the 
thoughte. 

A    SISSER    CASE. 

M''\  Drurye.         Theis  sisers  doe  your  husvviferie  bewraie  ; 

You  love  to  worke,  thoughe  you  were  born  to 
plaie. 

A    CHAINE. 

M'^  Marg^  Because  yow  scorne  Love's  captive  to  remaine, 

Wharton.  Fortune  hathe  sworne  to  leade  yow  in  a  chaine. 

A    PRAIER-BOOKE. 

Lefteundrawne,    Your  fortune  may  proove  good  another  daie: 
and   taken   by     Till    fortune    come,    take    you    a    booke     and 
the  Queene.  praie. 

A    SUUFKIN. 

The    Countess     'Tis  summer  yet,  a  suuf kin  is  your  lott ; 

of  Wai-wick.        But  'twill  bee  winter  one  daie,  doubt  yt  nott. 

A     FANNE. 

M'^    Gresham     Your  love  to  see,  and  yett  to  bee  unseene, 
Thynne.  Take     yowe    this    fanne    to    be    your    bewtie's 

skreene. 

A     PAIRE    OF    BRACELETTS. 

M"^'.  Mary  Ladie,  your  handes  arre  fallen  into  a  snare, 

Radcliff.  For  Cuj^id's  manacles  theis  bracelets  are. 

A    BODKIN. 

The    La.    Do-     Even    with    this    bodkin    yowe    may   live    un- 

rothie  Hast-  harmde, 

ings.  Your  bewtie  with  your  vertue  's  soe  well  armde. 


MISCELLANEOUS.  285 

A    NECKLACE. 

M'\  Mary  Fortune  gives  your  faire  necke  this  lace  to  weare: 

Nevill.  God  grante  a  heavier  yoke  yt  never  beare ! 

A     CUSHINETT. 

To  her  that  htle  cares  what  lott  shee  winnes, 
Chance  gives  a  Htle  cushinet  to  sticke  pinnes. 

A     DIALL. 

The  La.  Skid-     The  diall  ""s  yours :  watche  time  least  yt  be  loste, 
more.  Yet  they  must  loose  yt  that  doe  watche  yt  most. 

A    NUTTMEG,    WITH    A    BLANCKE    PARCHMENT    WITHIN    IT. 

The  Countes         This  nuttmeg  houldes  a  blanke,  but  Chance  doth 
of  Worster.  hide  yt : 

Write  you  your  owne  wishe,  and  Fortune  will 
provide  yt. 

A    RINGE,    WITH    A    POESIE,    "  AS    FAITHFULL    AS    I    FINDE." 

The  yonge  Your    hande    by   fortune    on    this   ringe    doth 

Countes  of  lighte, 

Darbie.  And  yet  the  worde  doth  fitt  your  humor  righte. 

BLANCKE. 

M"^*. Katherine     Wott  you  whye  Fortune  geves  to  you  no  prize? 
Hastinges.  Good  faithe,    she  sawe  yowe    not;  shee  wants 

her  eies  ! 


The  La.  Susan     You  arre  soe  daintie  to  be  pleased,  God  wott, 
Vere.  Chaunce  knowes  not  what  to  give  you  for  a  lott. 

BLANCKE. 

The  La.  ''Tis  pittie  suche  a  hande  shoulde  drawe  in  vaine ; 

Digbie.  Thoughe  yt  gaine  noughte,  yet   shall  yt    pittie 

gaine. 

BLANCKE. 

Nothing  's  your  lott :   that  's  more  then  can  be 

tould, 
For  nothing  is  more  pretious  then  goulde. 


286  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

There  remained  in  the  bottome  of  the  boxe  a  Jewell,  in  forme 
of  a  feather,  which  cost  600'':  this  was  presented  to  her  Majestie 
as  ladie  of  the  islande. 

At  her  departure.  Place,  in  a  mourninge  hahitt,  had  this 
speeche : 

Sweete  Majestie,  Be  pleased  to  looke  upon  a  poore  mourning 
widowe  before  yowe  goe  :  I  am  this  Place,  that  at  your  comeinge 
was  soe  full  of  joye,  and  nowe,  at  your  departure,  am  as  full  of 
sorrowe.  I  was  then,  for  my  comforte,  accompanied  with  the 
present  cheerefull  Time  ;  but  nowe  hee  muste  departe  withe  yowe, 
and,  blessed  as  hee  is,  must  ever  flie  before  you.  But,  alas  !  I 
have  no  winges,  as  Tyme  bathe  ;  my  heavynes  is  suche  as  I  must 
stand  still  amazed  to  see  soe  great  a  happienes  so  soone  berefte. 

0  that  I  coulde  remoove  withe  you  as  other  circumstances  can  ! 
Tyme  can  goe  withe  yowe ;  persons  can  goe  with  yow  :  they  can 
moove  like  heaven  ;  but  I,  like  dull  earthe  (as  I  am  mooved), 
must  stande  unmoovable.  I  could  wishe  my  self  like  to  the  in- 
chaunted  castle  of  Love,  to  houlde  you  here  for  ever :  but  your 
vertues  woulde  dissolve  all  myenchantmentes;  then  what  remedie? 
As  yt  is  against  the  nature  of  an  Angell  to  be  circumscribed  in  a 
place,  soe  yt  is  against  the  nature  of  Place  to  have  the  motive  of 
an  Angell.  I  muste  staye  forsaken  and  desolate  ;  you  must  goe 
with  majestie,  joye,  and  glorye.  My  onelie  suite  unto  yow  before 
yow  goe  is  this ;  that  yow  will  pardon  your  close  imprisonment 
that  yow  have  suffered  ever  since  youre  comeinge,  imputinge  yt 
not  to  mee  but  to  Saint  Swithen,  whoe  of  late  hathe  raised  soe 
manye  stormes,  as  I  was  faine  to  provide  this  ankor  for  you 
when  I  understoode  you  woulde  putt  into  this  creeke.    But  nowe 

1  perceive  the  harbour  is  too  litle  for  yow,  and  that  you  will 
needes  hoyst  sayle  and  be  gone,  I  beseeche  yowe,  take  this 
anl'or^^  with  you ;  and  I  praie  Him  that  made  bothe  Tyme  and 
Place,  that,  in  all  places  wherever  you  shall  arive,  yowe  may 
ankor  as  safelie  as  yow  doe,  and  ever  shall  doe,  in  the  hartes  of 
my  owners. 

A  verie  riche  skarfe  and  mantle  given  by  my  la.  daughters. 

Before  any  of  theese  speeches,  a  baliffe  and  milke-maid  mett 
her,  and  presented  her  with  a  rake  and  forke  sett  with  dia- 
monds, invitinge  her  to  staie  there  one  worke  dale,  to  see  howe 
well  shee  coulde  use  them. 

^2  Worthe  C.  marks  [in  the  margin). 


MISCELLANEOUS.  287 

No.  OLXXYI. 

SIR    JO.    BENET's    SPEACH    to    the    king    ATT    YORKE. 

Ai'RiLL  16,   1603.     (224.) 

The  copie  of  a  speaclie  delivered  to  the  K.  his  Majestie  at  his 
entraunce  into  the  mannor  at  Yorke  upon  tlie  26"'  day  of 
Aprill,  1603,  by  John  Benet,  doctor  of  law,  one  of  his  Highnes' 
Counsell  establisht  in  the  Northe. 

Most  high,  most  mightie,  and  most  renowned  King,  it  hath 
ever  bene  observed,  that  as  greiffes,  so  joyes,  the  lesser  they  are, 
the  more  theyspeake,  and,  the  greater  they  are,  they  speake  the 
lessse  ;  in  which  regard  justly  should  wee  wyshe,  at  this  so  glorious 
and  gratefull  a  sight  of  your  roiall  jNlajestie,  that  which  a  certaine 
philosopher  ys  sayd  to  have  wyshed,  that  God  had  opened  wyn- 
dowes  in  our  breasts,  to  the  end  your  Majestie  might  see  the 
aboundant  joye  we  have  received,  and  not  only  gather  yt  by  our 
countenance  and  words  throughe  the  narrowe  chincks  of  our  out- 
ward sences,  but  behould  yt  with  full  viewe  in  our  verie  hartes  as 
in  the  fountaine  where  yt  springethe.  Sithence  that  cannot  be, 
I  must  be  enforced  at  this  tyme  to  shadowe  (as  yt  were)  under 
a  vayle  our  infinite  and  unspeakable  joye,  and  leave  yt  to  be  con- 
ceived by  your  Highnes""  princely  imaginacion ;  which  cannot  be 
pourtrayed  by  anie  discription,  because  our  hartes  are  not  able 
to  contayne  the  just  proportion  thereof,  neither  yet  our  toungs 
to  utter  the  conceit  of  our  harts  :  which  notwithstanding,  I  will 
(thoughe  the  most  unable  of  all  others,  in  regard  of  my  great  joye 
and  litle  skill),  with  your  Majestie's  gratious  favour,  lightly 
touche,  or  rather  only  point  at  (as  dumbe  men  may  doe),  some 
fewe  of  the  manifould  just  causes  of  our  exceeding  and  incom- 
parable coraforte.  And,  fyrst,  I  cannot  without  speciall  delight 
remember  or  recount  how  yt  pleased  God,  after  many  bloudie 
battayles  fought  within  the  verie  bowells  of  this  kingdome  be- 
tweene  the  white  rose  and  the  red, — the  noble  houses  of  Yorke 
and  Lancaster, — whereby  this  famous  real  me  was  brought  to  woe- 
full  desolation,  and  almost  utter  destruction,  to  make  an  end  of 
those  endless  quarrels  by  the  thrice  happie  intermarriage  of 
K.  Henrie  the  7*'\  the  Solomon  of  England,  of  happie  memorie, 


288  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

your  Majestie's  great-great-grandfather,  with  dame  Ellzabethe, 
the  eldest  daughter  of  K.  Edward  the  4*'' ;  the  happiest  and 
sweetest  conjunction  bothe  of  the  houses  and  persons  that  could 
be  devised.  Yf  there  were  nothing  els,  what  true  Englyshe  hart 
will  not  exceedingly  rejoyce  to  see  such  an  orient  braunche 
sprung  from  that  joynt  royal  roote  ?  But  behould  in  this  conjunc- 
tion yet  an  other  union  and  conjunction  at  lengthe  most  for- 
tunatly  atchieved,  of  this  whole  iland,  which  hath  bene  sought 
with  the  price  of  so  manie  thousand  men''s  bloud  of  both  nations, 
and  not  obtayned  ;  of  so  great  and  happie  consequence,  as  the 
wysest  head  in  the  world  cannot  conceive,  nor  the  eloquentest 
tounge  unfold,  the  manifould  blessings  that  are  folded  and  wrapped 
therein.  And  herein,  as  God  his  providence  and  heavenly  dis- 
pensation hath  wonderfully  shewed  yt  self,  so  our  happines  and 
felicities  dothe  consist  apparently  in  as  muche  as  we  have  a  king 
not  chosen  out  of  the  multitude  (as  yt  is  in  sundrie  partes  of  the 
world),  that  must  be  long  tyme  in  framing  and  fashioning  him 
selfe  to  weare  and  weild  a  crowne,  but  one  that,  being  lyneally 
disceuded  from  the  most  royall  race  of  kings  that  Christendome 
hathe  afforded,  hath  wysely  and  happely  rayned  and  ruled  sondrie 
most  unruly  people  already,  even  to  the  wonder  of  the  world  : 
who  hath  not  only  consulted  with  the  best  and  wysest  counsellers 
that  ever  lived,  both  sacred  and  profane,  such  as  advise  without 
feare  and  flatterie,  and  perused  all  histories,  the  richest  store- 
houses of  wysdome,  but  also  put  in  use  and  practise  both  instruc- 
tions and  examples,  with  a  particuler  application  thereof,  as  occa- 
sions were  presented  and  circumstances  required:  nay,  yet  further, 
who  bothe  out  of  speculation  and  practise  togeather  (yt  is  hard 
to  say  whether  most  like  a  worthie  king  or  like  a  divine  philo- 
sopher) hath  framed  such  a  mould  and  patterne  for  institution 
of  a  king,  as  thoughe  entituled  to  our  young  prince,  of  rare  hope 
and  singuler  towardlines,  for  his  instruction,  may  well  serve  for 
direction  to  the  eldest  and  wysest  princes  of  Christendome ;  not 
such  only  as  live  and  raigne  at  this  present,  but  those  also  that 
shall  come  after  in  all  succeeding  ages.  But,  amongest  sondrie 
matters  of  our  exceeding  joye,  the  verie  manner  and  course  of 
proceeding  in  this  behalfe  is  (in  my  simple  judgement)  most 
memorable  and  remarkable,  in  that  everie  man  that  ever  pub- 
lished his  conceite  and  conjecture  of  the  next  successor  of 
Q.  Elizabethe  (notwithstanding  your  Majestie's  bloud  and  dis- 


MISCELLANEOUS.  289 

cent  sufficiently  proclaymed  your  undoubted  riglit)  did,  by  was 
of  prognostication,  amaze   himselfe,  and  astonishe   others  with 
expectations  of  troubles,  seditions,  and  factions,  such  as  in  the 
highest  degree  doe  accompanie  an  interregnum  and  competition 
of  divers  pretenders,  (as  yf  our  happines,  being  at   the  highest, 
could  not  have  continued,  and  as  yf  yt  had  not  bene  possible 
but    some   night    of  tempestuous   broyles    and   darke   confusion 
must  needes  have  ensewed  that  glorious  and  glittering  sunshine 
of  ours  which  had  so  long  endured,)  it  hath  pleased  our  God,  who 
is  the  God  of  peace,  so  to  knitt  and  unite  us  togither  in  this 
mayne  matter  of  the  kingdome  (howsoever  of  different  opinions 
and  divers  humors  otherwyse)  as  no  night  at  all  hath  followed 
the  happie  dayes  of  Q.  Elizabethe,  and  to  frame  such  an  harmonie 
and  concert  in  the  harts  and  toungs  of  all  your  Highnes"'  subjects 
of  this  kingdome  as  no  one  string  hath  jarred  (that  I  have  heard 
of),  muche  lesse  any  notable  discord  happened,  that  might  offend 
and  g reive  the  eares  of  your  royall  Majestie ;  in  so  much  as  we 
must  needes  in  all  thankfullnes  acknowledge,  A  Domino  factum 
est  istud,  et  est  mirahile  in  oculis  nostris.     Now  the  continuance 
of  the  mightie  God  his  speciall  favour  ys  by  your  Majestie's  royall 
vertues  and  princely  graces  not  onely  promised  fayrely,  but  even 
fully  assured  unto  us.     And,  fyrst,  your  Majestie's  sincere  and 
constant  profession  of  the  true  religion  (the  grace  of  graces  and 
vertue  of  all  vertues),   togither   with  that    divine   opinion,    not 
secretly  conceived,  but  published  to  the  world  and  recorded  to 
all  posteritie,  that  you  estoeme  yt  the  fayrest  stile  of  a  king  to  be 
a  nursing  father  to  the  Ohurche  ;   your  justice  and  mercie,  so 
mingled  and  tempered  togither  as  the  necessarie  sharpnes  of  the 
one  is  wonderfully  allayed  with  the  voluntarie  sweetnes  of  the 
other  ;   your  magnanimitie  and  felicitie,  as  yt  were,  striving  and 
contending  whether  the  one  should  deserve,  or  the  other  reward, 
more  ;  your  wysdome  and  learninge,  spread  and  divulged  by  your 
printed  bookes  and  publique  actions  not  in  this  iland  alone,  but 
over  all  the  Christian  world,  to  your  immortall  fome  ;  your  royall 
bountie  ;    your  singuler  temperance ;    your  rare  affabilitie    and 
facilitie,  with  sundrie  other  vertues,  amiable  in  all  men,  but  ad- 
mirable in  the  person  of  a  king  ;    your  princely  person  and  pre- 
sence ;    the  plentifull  yssue  which  God  hath  sent  you  alreadie, 
with  hope  of  more,  (which  God  ever  blesse,  with  our  noble  Queene, 
the  fruitfull  vine  from  whence  they  sprang,)  and  which,  in  place 

V 


290  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

of  the  feare  whevcwitli  we  have  beene  lieretofore  mightily  per- 
plexed, doth  fill  us  with  wonderfull  joye  and  comforte  ;  togeather 
with  the  sure  testimonies  of  your  Majestie*'s  gracious  inclinacion, 
or  rather  setled  resolucion,  to  governe  by  our  ancient  lawes,  with 
our  longe  continued  liberties,  in  the  selfe  same  forme  and  frame 
of  government,  bothe  for  temporall  and  ecclesiastical  1  afFayres, 
that  by  the  experience  of  nianie  ages  hath  bene  found  most  fitt 
and  sutable  to  our  nature  and  manners,  then  the  which  what 
greater  blessing  can  happen  to  anie  people  or  nations  ?  Since 
everie  litle  alteration  in  forme  of  government  (as  hath  beene 
observed  by  the  politiques  of  all  tymes)  is  not  only  uncouth  and 
troublesome,  but  perillous  and  daingerous  too,  to  the  state  and 
people.  These  wonderfull  blessings,  I  saye,  everie  one  of  them 
severally,  and  therefore  muche  more  all  of  them  joyntly  togither 
(as  yt  wer)  in  a  heavenly  consorte,  as  they  are  stronge  groundes 
of  unspeakable  joye  and  comforte  to  us  all,  so  are  they  notable 
pawnes  and  sure  pledges  of  the  continuance,  and,  I  trust,  of  the 
perpetuitie,  of  God  his  haj^pines  therein.  But  your  Majestie's 
just  prayses  are  to  deepe  a  sea  for  me  to  wade  in  ;  and  therefore, 
as  the  arithmeticians  doe  comprehend  great  and  high  sommes  in 
smale  notes  or  figures,  so  I  have  breifely  cast  and  summed  up 
(as  y t  were)  the  infinite  treasures  of  God  his  riclie  mercies  powred 
upon  your  Majestic,  and  in  your  Majestic  upon  us  your  people, 
well  knoweinge  that  your  Highnes  takes  more  delight  in  the  true 
and  painefull  actions  then  in  the  due  and  sweete  commendacions 
of  your  most  heroicall  and  royall  vertues.  Now,  in  these  so  gene- 
rall  and  publique  joyes,  our  noble  President  and  rest  of  this 
Councell  doe  esteeme  them  selves  to  have  speciall  interest  and 
more  peculier  cause  of  comforte,  in  as  much  as  your  Majestic,  so 
mightie,  so  wyse,  and  so  learned  a  prince,  hath  alreadie  vouch- 
safed us  that  honnor  to  be  of  councell  to  your  Majestic  for  these 
north  partes  of  England.  Of  his  lordship,  because  present,  I 
will  speake  only  one  word  ;  that  (even  in  the  judgement  of  envie 
yt  selfe)  he  makes  good  his  word,  which  is,  Cor  unum,  via  una,  in 
the  whole  course  of  his  cariage,  towards  God,  towards  his  sove- 
raigne,  and  towards  other  with  whom  he  hath  to  deale  :  which 
word,  togither  with  sundrie  vertues,  discended  to  him  from  his 
worthie  and  renowned  father,  the  Nestor  of  England  in  his  long 
and  happie  tymes,  who  (as  I  have  credibly  heard,  and  do  vere 
beleve)  gave  earnest  and  expresse  direction  on  his  deathe 


MISCELLANEOUS.  291 

bed  to  his  dearest  children  to  frame  their  one  harte  and  one  way 
only  to  your  Highnes,  as  to  the  happie  sunne  rising,  and  next 
undoubted  heyre  of  this  Orowne,  whensoever  yt  should  please 
God  to  take  awaye  the  light  from  Queene  Elizabethe,  who  coun- 
tenanced and  exercised  with  greatest  authoritie  and  chiefest  grace 
the  noble  and  kindly  branches  that  sprange  from  that  roote  of 
wysdome,  whereof  the  whole  kingdome  for  a  long  tyme  hath  so 
happely  enjoyed  the  frutes.  Those  that  by  your  Majestie's 
gratious  favour  doe  attend  and  assist  his  lordship  in  this  counsell 
doe,  by  my  mouthe  (the  meanest  of  them),  present  their  most 
bounden  duties  and  loyall  affections  to  your  Highnes,  with  .    .    . 

their  constant  readines  to  employ  not  only  their  wytts,  their 
skills,  and  their  travells,  but  their  goods,  their  lands,  their  lives 
and  all,  for  your  Majestie's  service  and  at  your  royall  commaund. 
Now  (because  I  feare  I  have  beene  over  tedious  to  your  Highnes) 
what  remaynes  but  that  on  the  bowed  knees  of  our  harts  we 
beseeche  the  King  of  kings  to  blesse  your  Majestic  with  long 
lyfe  and  thrice  happie  raigne  over  us,  to  protect  your  royall  per- 
son from  all  hostill  and  treacherous  attempts  whatsoever,  to  defend 
your  noble  kingdoms  from  forraeyne  invasions  and  inward  sedi- 
tion, to  prosper  your  peace,  maugre  all  the  divell's  instruments 
that  will  endeavour  to  impeache  yt,  to  crown  you  with  joy  and 
glories  in  this  world,  and  with  everlasting  glory  in  the  next  ?  And 
that  I  wyshe  unfeynedly,  even  from  the  botom  of  my  hart,  that 
his  hart  may  wyther  within  his  bowells,  and  his  tounge  for  ever 
cleave  to  the  roofe  of  his  mouthe,  that  from  his  hart  with  his 
tounge  will  not  saye,  God  save  King  James  !  God  blesse  King 
James  !     Amen. 


LETTER  OLXXVII. 

SIR    WALTER    RAWLYE's    LETTER    TO    SIR    ROBERT    CARR. 

(1603.) 

Sir,  After  manny  great  losses  and  mannye  yeers'  sorrowes,  of 
bothe  which  I  have  cause  to  feare  that  I  was  mystaken  in  there 
ends,  it  is  come  to  my  knowledge  that  your  selfe  (whome  I  know 

u  2 


292  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

not  but  by  an  honorable  fame)  have  beene  perswaded  to  gyve  me 
and  myne  our  last  fatall  blowe,  by  obtayning  from  hys  Majestic 
the  inheritance  of  my  chyldren  and  nephewes,  lost  in  the  lawe 
for  the  want  of  a  worde.  Thys  don,  there  remaynes  nothing 
with  me  but  the  name  of  lyfe,  dyspoyled  of  all  els  but  the  tytle 
and  sorrowe  thereof.  Hys  Majestie,  whome  I  never  offended, 
(for  I  ever  held  yt  unnaturall  and  unmanlye  to  hate  goodnes,) 
stayed  me  at  the  gravels  brink  ;  not  (as  I  hope)  that  hys  Majestie 
thought  me  worthye  of  manye  deaths,  and  to  behould  all  myne 
cast  out  of  the  world  with  my  self,  but  as  a  king  whoe 
judgethe  the  poore  in  truthe  bathe  receaved  a  promyse  from 
God  that  hys  throane  shalbe  establyshed  for  ever.  And  for 
your  selfe  (sir),  seeing  your  fayre  day  is  but  now  in  the  dawne, 
and  myne  drawne  to  the  evenyng,  (your  owne  vertue  and  the 
King's  grace  assuring  you  of  many  fortunes  and  much  pouer,)  I 
beseeche  you  not  to  begynne  your  fyrst  building  upon  the  ruynes 
of  the  ynnocent,  and  that  their  and  my  sorrowes  may  not  attend 
your  plantacion,  ever  beeing  bound  to  your  nation,  as  well  for 
many  other  graces  as  for  their  true  report  of  my  tryall  to  his  Ma- 
jestie ;  agaynst  Avliome  had  I  beene  found  malygnent,  the  hearing 
of  my  cause  would  not  have  changed  enymyes  into  frends, 
malyce  into  passion  (compassion,  Cab.),  and  the  mynds  of  the 
greatest  number  present  into  the  consideration  of  myne  estate. 
It  is  not  the  nature  of  foule  treason  to  begett  such  fayre  passions; 
nether  could  yt  agree  with  the  dutie  and  love  of  faythfull 
subjects,  especiallye  of  your  nature  (nation,  Cab.),  to  bewayle  hys 
overthrow  that  had  conspyred  against  there  most  lyberall  and 
naturall  lord.  I  therefore  trust  (sir)  you  wyll  not  be  the  fyrst 
that  shall  kyll  us  outryght,  cut  downe  the  tree  with  the  fruites, 
and  undergoe  their  curse  that  enter  into  the  feelds  of  the  father- 
les,  which  (yf  yt  please  you  to  know  the  truth)  are  farre  less 
fruitfull  in  value  then  fame,  but  that  soe  worthye  a  gentleman  as 
yourselfe  wyll  rather  bynd  us  to  your  servyce,  beeing  (sir)  gen- 
tlemen not  base  in  byrthe  and  alyances  Avhich  have  interest  there. 
And  my  selfe,  with  the  uttermost  thankfullnes,  wyll  ever  re- 
mayne  readj-e  to  obey  your  survyce.^^ 

''^  This  letter  is  a  transcript  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  Timothy  upon  the  back 
of  a  letter  from  Sir  Thos.  Huttun  of  Poppleton,  addressed  "  To  his  verie  loving 
brother  Sir  Timothie  Hutton,  knight,  att  Richmond,  speed  these  ;"'  and  sealed 
with  an  armorial  seal,  Hutton  impaling  Bennet. 


MISCELLANEOUS.  293 

No.  CLXXVIII. 

barret's  tripos  speech,   of  ST.  John's  college. 

(1620.) 

Oratio  Domini  Barret  Tripodis  Collegij  Divi  Johannis,  Anno  Domini  1G20. 

Ain'  vero,  Plato,  Estne  homo  animal  implume,  bipes?  procul 
dubio  ego  homo  non  sum,  qui  sum  animal  implume,  tripes.  Quale 
ego  tandem  animal  prodii  I  equus  an  asinus  ?  sic  Plinius  nonnulla 
animalia  divisit.  Equus  certe  non  sum  saltem  oppidanus,  quia 
non  sum  tantus  cessator  ut  calcaribus  indigeam,  citius  enim  hue 
adveni  quam  quis  expectaret.  Utrum  sim  asinus  vos,  equi,  estote 
judices ;  ego  certe  vix  me  credam  asinum,  cum  asinus  stramenta 
mavult  quam  aurum,  ego  aurum  quam  stramenta  mallem,  et  quis 
non  mallet  nisi  mentis  inops  i  nam  animal  fieri  soeiabile,  bonum 
inquam  socium,  absque  auro  impossibile  est,  et  impossibilia  non 
cadunt  sub  electione.  At  quid  tandem  sum,  obsecro  ?  Sum  animal 
quoddam  inanimatum;  nee  homo,  nee  equus,  nee  asinus,  nee  bipes, 
nee  quadrupes,  sed  tripos.  At  quid  tripos  tandem?  tripos  erat 
mensa  senea  in  Apollinis  templo  tribus  fulta  pedibus :  nrc  ego  in 
sere  tuo  sum,  Apollo,  qui  me  mensa  communicasti  tua  quantjuam 
jejuna  sit  et  sterilis,  in  qua  nihil  exponendum  est  pra^ter  sales ; 
quique  tandem  sum,  plurimos  salutatum  venio,  vosque  primulum 
auditores  dicam  Apollinares?  apage;  semel  in  anno  ridet  Apollo, 
vos  volo  ssepissime;  imo  Joviales  estis,  uti  spero,  omnes,  "  Jovis 
omnia  plena."  Nolite  putare  me  quicquam  hie  aucupari  gloria?, 
nam  primus  cum  actus  esset  dies  Cinerum,  "  post  cineres  gloria 
nulla  venit;"  vosque  postea  postcs  hujus  seholtc,  columnar  quibus 
tota  domus  inclinata  recumbit,  estote  auditores  vere  Mercuriale.s, 
ut  salsum  sit  quod  vulgo  dici  solet  "  ex  quovis  ligno  non  fit 
Mercurius  ;"  aures  prabete  arrectas,  ridete  ne  deridete, 
non  enim  novi  postica?  occurrere  sannte,  vosque  delude  salvere 
jubeo,  marmorei  parietes,  albo  signandi  lapillo,  ne  tarn  vivi  estote 
ut  loquamini  lapides,  sed  aures  prabete  faciles,  ne  quod  vobis 
dictum  est  lapidi  quis  dictum  putet;  vosque  fenestra^  Imjus 
domicilii,  decus  ingens  et  lux  egregia,  quibus  certe  ha?c  schola 
multum  debet,  sine  vobis  etenim  quid  esset  nisi  "  monstrum 
hovrendum,  infbrme,  ingens,  cui  lumen  ademptum  f '  vos  oro  ut 


294  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

vere  nuncietis  quae  accipietis  omnia,  ut  quae  in  vino  solita  est 
esse,  nunc  sit  in  vitro  Veritas  :  seel  jam  tandem  post  S.  P.  ad 
questiones  quatuor  pedibus  propero. 

Locus  EST  coNSERVATivus  LocATi. — Locus,  ctc. :  in  qua  ques- 
tione  si  decipiam  (sic)  paulo  ignoscendum  est,  cum  dulce  sit  deci- 
pere  {sic)  in  loco,  ut  testantur  causidici,  qui  in  omnibus  locis 
decipiunt.  Verum  imprimis  tollenda  est  loci  ambiguitas,  locus 
enim  est  multiplex  :  primo  sunt  multi  loci  Grammatici,  nam  oratio 
interdum  supplet  locum  substantivi,  ut  "  Audito  regem  Dorobor- 
niam  proficisci."  2^°.  "  Sibilus,jocus  atque  locus,"  quanquam  miror 
certe  cur  locus  inter  heteroclita  locetur,  cum  nee  genus  nee 
sexum  mutat;  nam,  si  mutaret,  esset  foeminini  generis,  at  hoc  im- 
possibile,  cum  omnis  locus  est  immobilis,  at  foemininum  genus 
semper  est  mobile :  loquatur  pars  pro  toto,  lingua  cujusque 
foeminse,  quse  nunquam  est  immobilis,  sed  "  labitur  et  labetur  in 
omne  volubilis  sevum."  Sunt  etiam  multi  loci  logic! :  si  quis  enim 
furetur,  in  carcerem  conjiciatur  et  postea  suspendatur,  est  locus 
logicus,  ab  antecedente,  consequente,  et  concomitante.  Deinde 
campus  Martins,  ubi  pila  pedestri  luditur,  et  "  unusquisque  pedem 
pede  tumidus  urget,"  est  locus  logicus  ab  oppositis.  Semel  illic 
consj^exi  "  bella  per  immanes  plusquam  civilia  campos,  populum- 
que  potentem  in  sua  victrici  conversum  viscera  dextra,"  ubi  pugna- 
bant  logice  et  rlietorice,  pugno  et  palma,  et  eo  die  plusquam 
quinquaginta  horum  ceciderunt,  magna  quidem  "  turba  gravis 
paci  placidaeque  inimica  quieti ;"  majores  erant  quam  potuit  for- 
tuna  nocere,  "  at  fessi  multa  referebant  nocte  minores,*"  crura 
plagis  plena,  livida  armis  bvacliia,  facies  miris  modis  pallida,  alii 
cum  Soscia  apud  Plautum,^^  fugiebant  maxime  cum  ceeteri  pug- 
nabant  maxime,  et  sese  juxta  metum  tres  pedes  habuisse  opta- 
bant :  alius  incidebat  claudus,  et  se  quoque  optabat  esse  tripodem. 
Prseterea,  si  quis  causidicus  prsemium  accipit,  est  locus  logicus  ab 
eo  quod  magis  est ;  sin  quicquam  largiatur  pauperi,  est  locus 
logicus  ab  eo  quod  minus  est ;  sic  a  majori  ad  minus  directis- 
sime  valet  consequentia.  Deinde  locus  ille  fi-atrum  est  locus  logicus 
a  pari :  sunt  enim  ambo  nebulones  pessimi,  sic  sunt  ergo  pares ; 
et  bene  habet  quod  pares  cum  paribus  jungantur.  Postremo  si 
quis  hoc  oppidum  virginium  locum  esse  asserit,  est  locus  logicus 
a  contrariis,  cujus  contrarium  verum  est.  Est  et  locus  alius  ab  om- 
nibus his  di versus,  locus  dignitatis  et  promotionis  de  quo  loquitur 

"  Ampliitruo,  Act.  i.  Sc.  1. 


MISCELLANEOUS.  29.5 

tiilius,  "  inque  loco,  nisi  sis  jussus  abire,  maue.""  Post  distinc- 
tionem,  sequitur  divisio  loci.  Locus  est  vel  communis  vel  pro- 
prius,  Primo,  castellum  est  proprius  locus  causidicorum,  ubi 
causae  aguntur,  perag-untur  raro,  suspenduutur  srepissime, 
pra^sertim  cum  finis  causa  agitur,  at  fures  suspensionem  uiliili 
pendunt,  licet  decisa  causa  ipsa  causae  cadunt.  Verum  hie  locus 
causidicorum  est  locus  eequivocus,  requivocorum  autem  est  et 
sequivocatum  et  sequivocans :  ipse  locus  est  aquivocum  eequivo- 
catum,  at  causidici  sunt  sequivoca  sequivocantia ;  et  de  his  non 
tenet  vulgare  illud,  "  Pecuniam  in  loco  negligere  maximum  est 
lucrum."  Disputant  quidem  causidici,  sed  syllogismis  falsissimis, 
vix  enim  causam  ullam  probant  aut  improbant  sine  quatuor 
terminis ;  interdum  tandem  quando  disputant  in  datisi  (sic), 
agunt  syllogistice,  et  conclusio  semper  sequitur  deteriorem  partem, 
si  datis.  Secundo,  est  locus  quidem  memella  dictus  proprius  illis 
qui  sigilla  adulterina  cudunt  et  regis  imagine  signant,  atque  in 
hoc  loco  aurium  tenus  locantur,  qui  dum  cuderent  reges  nescio 
quis  aurem  avellit,  et  admonet ;  atque  hujusmodi  homines  tria 
maxima  insequuntur  incommoda,  nam  primo  abscissis  auribus 
semper  postea  pessime  audiunt ;  2*^°.  oculati  testes  esse  possunt, 
auditi  non  possunt ;  S''".  namque  secure  quiescunt,  nee  in  utram- 
que  aurem  dormiunt.  Ultimo  hsec  schola  est  locus  proprius 
Baccalaureorum,  qui  jam  tandem  speco  sedendo  sapiuut.  Tan- 
tum  de  proprio  loco  ;    sequitur  locus  communis. 

Primo  sunt  multi  loci  communes  in  unoquoque  collegio,  at 
locus  omnium  communissimus  est  oenopolium,  locus  ad  bibenduin 
amplissimus,  ubi  nihil  Casare  bibulo  peraguntur  omnia  ;  atqxie  hie 
quatuor  particulares  sub  se  contiuet,  Delphinem,  2'^"  Rosam,  3"** 
Falconem,  4*°  JMitram,  ex  quorum  tribus  tres  ego  ebrios  conspexi 
exeuntes,  locata  certe  nobilissima  :  primusque  ex  Mitra  exiens, 
nescio  quo  casu  in  me  incidit,  cui  ego,  "  Olim  Corona,  at  nunc 
Mitra,  est  signum  ebrietatis :""  secundus  e  Falcone  exiit,  qui  post- 
quam  ibi  fuisset  interrogatus,  digito  Falconem  ostendit,  lingua 
titubante,  velut  Balus  ille  apud  Ovidium,  "  Sub  montibus  illis, 
montibus,  inquit,  eram,  et  eram  sub  montibus  illis :"  tertius  e 
Delphino  exiit  gloriabundus,  jactitans  se  Jovis  Hammonis  nectare 
inebriatum  ;  qui  protinus  in  terram  incidit  et  dormiens  osculatur 
matrem,  velut  alter  Csesar,  nisi  quod  Csesar  accessit  ad  everten- 
dam  rempublicam,  ille  ebrius  ad  evertendum  seipsum.  Rosam 
mitto  ne  spini.s  pungar,  quannpiam,   "  si  possem,  vellem  per  te 


296  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

rosa  ponere  pellem."  A  divisione  transeo  ad  definitionem.  Locus 
est  superficies  et  quasi  suprema  facies,  et  sic  suprema  facies 
mulierum  est  pingeudi  locus  mulierum,  inquam,  quee  ssepissime 
faciunt  Candida  de  nigris ;  et  de  hoc  loco  intelligitur,  ut  aliqui 
Phisici,quod  locus  fit  forma;  sed  O  formosa  puella,  nimis  ne  crede 
colori,  neque  tu,  si  quis  amator  advenit,  desinas  in  pictam  mulier 
formosa  supernam.  Hujusmodi  ego  fceminas  poetas  este  credo, 
quia  sunt  picturse  loquentes  ;  et,  si  sint  poetse,  turn  pingunt  se  per 
licentiam  poeticam,  nam  "  pictoribus  atque  poetis  quidlibet  au- 
dendi  semper  fuit  sequa  potestas:""  pingunt  se  etiam  ut  poetas  decet 
figuratas,  nam  figurse  colores  et  figmenta  vocantur.  Sed  mitto  has 
picturas,  quia  nulli  sunt  usui  nisi  ut  suspendantur.  Ad  loci 
essentiam  hsec  tria  pertinent,  ubi,  ubinam,  nusquam ;  ut,  in  quo 
loco  sunt  virgines,  ubi,  ubinam,  nu.squam ;  in  quo  loco  sunt 
honesti  sartores,  ubi,  ubinam,  nusquam  ;  in  quo  loco  sunt  veri- 
dici  causidici,  ubi,  ubinam,  nusquam. 

Sed  jam  tandem  ad  probationem.  Locum  igitur  conservare 
locatum  sic  probo,  quia  omnia  gravia  tendunt  deorsum  et  illic 
conservantur,  et  hsec  ratio  est  cur  ebrii  viri  certe  gravissimi  ad 
terram  descendunt  et  illic  secure  quiescunt  a  casu  et  fortuna, 
nam  "  qui  jacet  in  terra  non  liabet  unde  cadat;"  et  hujusmodi 
ebrius  est  terra  filius,  et  terra  simillimus,  nam  ut  terra  frigida,  sic 
et  ebrius  ;  frigidus  nempe  quia  pugnat  cum  calidis,  scilicet  cum 
vino;  at  vinum,  luctator  dolosus,  cito  captat  pedes:  S**",  ut  terra 
sicca  est,  sic  et  ebrius  est  siccus,  quia  omnem  aftusum  humorem 
combibit :  8*'°,  ut  terra  solida  est,  ita  et  ebrius  corpus  habet 
solidum  et  succi  plenum  :  prteterea  ita  omnia  levia  sursum  ten- 
dunt et  leve  concavum  conservat,  ignem  perpetuando  per  motum 
circularem  ;  et  hac  ratione  nonnulli  studentium  nomine  ludunt 
globulis,  qui  scilicet  motus  circularis  est  perpetuus.  2'^°.  Sic  probo, 
"  si  torva  leajua  lupum  sequitur,"  tum  locus  conservat  locatum  ;  at 
ergo,  vel  quod  idem  valet,  intelligit  omnia,  tum  locus  conservat 
locatum ;  at  ergo,  postremo,  si  quis  Ciceronis  opera  furetur  a 
bibliopola,  pro  illo  est  locus  in  carcere  quod  Tullianura  appella- 
tur,  ut  hie  locus  conservet  locatum,  non  semper  tamen,  sed  donee 
res  ad  restim  rediit,  ergo.  Sed  objicies  quod  career  non  est  locus 
proj)rius  furis,  sed  funis,  quia  funis  est  superficies  abiens  et  conti- 
nens  locatum;  at  funis  non  conservat,  sed  interimit,  ut  testantur 
fures  per  quos  videre  possumus  quam  levi  filo  res  humana  pendent. 
Sed  respondere  possum  multipliciter,  nam  funis  sumitur  vel  large 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


297 


vel  stricte ;  si  stride,  funis  turn  interiniit,  sin  large,  conservat ; 
sumitur  autem  funis  large  quando  consideratur  ut  finis,  ut  aiitem 
cum  efficiens  ad  ilium  sub  natura  ordinatur  ssepe  enim  ipsi  fiinium 
factores  fune  intereunt,  "  neque  lex  justior  ulla  est  quam  necis 
artifices  arte  perire  sua."  At  inquies  finis  conservat,  sed  respondeo 
quod  finis  ut  est  ftinis  in  intentione,  non  in  executione.  Sed  objicies 
quod  crumena  non  conservat  aurum,  ut  testantur  prodigi,  qui  ex- 
clamant  cum  Oeesare,  "  Jacta  est  alea,"  et  sic  spes  nummorum  in 
Osesare  :  sed  respondeo  quod  crumena  est  duplex,  vel  plena  vel 
vacua ;  plena  conservat  aurum,  sed  non  evacua ;  et  aurum  est 
duplex,  vel  potabile  vel  non  potabile ;  crumena  non  conservat 
aurum  potabile,  sed  aurum  quod  non  potabile  est.  Objici  potest 
de  multis  aliis  locis,  sed  tot  jam  peragravi  loca  ut  pene  defessus 
ambulando  proinde  hie  pedes  sistam  et  loco  meo  supersedebo, 
nam  ego  et  pater  sumus  in  tuto,  tu  atque  frater  estis  in  periculo. 
Proinde  vos  agite. 

Ego  dixi. 


No.   CLXXIX. 


1623.     Eboracensia.     (361,  the  19th  Bundell.) 


MiTTiT  Christofero  Torrenti 
Salutem,  spero  non  egenti, 

Socius  Eboracensis  : 
Ut  cito  redeas  hue  precatur, 
Ubi  suaviter  cccnatur, 

Non  tam  magnis  cum  expen- 
sis. 


Si  jocus  placet,  hie  cum  bonis 
Secundum  captum  Aquilonis 

Facetise  ssepe,  datus  lusus. 
Quis  citharsedum  est  cxosus. 
Quod  "  Jocky  est  factus  gene- 
rosus," 

Qui  cantat  strenue,ut  est  usus? 


Non  cum  anchovis  et  potatis, 
Sed  in  discis  et  in  platis. 

Datur  piscis,  datur  avis, 
Salsamentum  cum  ferina, 
Potus  Martius,  dulcia  vina, 

Accipe  utrum  horum  mavis. 


Si  cogites  quid  sit  novarum, 
Hie  secundum  usum  Sarum 

Psallit  clerus  cathedralis 
Post  hymnos  mox  et  cantilenas : 
Totos  nummos  et  crumenas 

In  vinis  fundunt  et  in  alis. 


298 


CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


De  prsesule  sic  prspcllcatur, 
Placet,  perplacet,  amatur, 

Hillaris  et  hospitalis  ; 
Angelus  suggesta  scandit, 
(Rex)  amicis  fores  pandit 

111  toto  clero  iion  est  talis. 

Medicinse  professores 
Tres  habemus  hie  doctores, 

Quorum  primus  parlat  bene 
Sed  male  sanat  male  sanos ; 
Sermones  alter  spernit  vanos, 

Sed  a3grotos  curat  plene. 

Tertius  patientes  verbis 
Dulcibus,  unguentis,  herbis, 

Sanat,  et  sic  multis  placet : 
Factis  est  et  dictis  gratus, 
Sed  non  ad  dicendum  natus; 

Sapiens  aliquando  tacet. 

Fratres  tui  qui  per  forum 
Agunt  causas,  nescio  quorum, 

Lucrantur  sine  vitio  ; 
Si  utensilia  non  sunt  multa, 
Si  uxor  non  sit  nimis  culta, 

Si  non  venit  prohibitio. 

Equites  non  optant  guerras, 
Domi  metiuntur  terras : 

Non  fert  militare  decus 
Aulas  largas,  servos  multos, 
Advenas,  mendicos,  stultos  ; 

SufRcit  hie  puer  et  equus. 

Si  vis  morem  civitatis, 
Mutuo  dant,  sed  non  dant  gra- 
tis, 
Adverbie,  nee  adjective. 


Qui  proprium  curat,  non  com- 
mune. 
Qui  merces  vendit  oportune, 
Laudatus  is  pro  bono  cive. 

Bellum  Suedis  si  cum  Daiiis, 
Si  pax  nobis  cum  Hispanis, 

Si  nuramus  navigat  Aurorse, 
Si  indies  vectigal  crescit, 
Pannus  noster  si  vilescit. 

Actum  est  de  mercatore. 

Mechanici,  qvii  vilia  vendunt, 
Mutuis  ccenis  se  expendunt, 

Alaudas  et  perdices  edunt ; 
Quicquid  manus  viri  querit, 
Id  uxoris  gula  terit,  [dunt. 

Mercedem  totam  ventri  cre- 

Major  habet  parum  artis, 
Sed  cum  pistis,  tostis,  tartis, 

Pascit  fratres  et  sodales. 
In  primis  et  postremis  festis 
Non  caret  cibis  neque  guestis ; 

Londini  non  sunt  decem  tales. 

Miles  ille  Aldermannus, 

Cui  novies  novem  instat  annus, 

Jacet  sanctffi  Crucis  templo 
Cataphractus  et  armatus, 
Et  bene  insuper  togatus, 

Inaudito  sed  exempio, 

Imago  ejus  it  per  villam 
Viduam  quserens  vel  ancillam 

Uxoris  quse  dignetur  nomen: 
Offert  prsedia,  domos,  aurum. 
Nemo  vult,  nam  dat  thesaurum 

Inosculatis :  malum  omen  .' 


MISCELLANEOUS. 


299 


Nosti  urbis  senatores, 
Reliquorum  probos  mores ; 
Vicecomes  hie,  vir  fortis, 
Pransit  sexaginta  cignis, 
Quorum    sub    Decani    teelmis 

(?  tignis) 
Cantat  nullus  liora  mortis. 

Nosti  dudum  mercatorem, 
Cui  domum,  navem,  (sors)  ux- 

orem, 
Dedit,    horum  sed  contemp- 

tor  ; 


In  domo  nunquam  habitabat, 
Nee  in  puppi  navigabat, 

Pro  tertia  non  est  datus  emp- 
tor. 

Supersunt  multa  non  scribenda, 
Lenia,  vana,  deridenda, 

Qu£e  silentio  do  et  j)ace  : 
Musam  nostrara  (his  perlectis 
Coram  sociis  Mitria  tectis) 

Maritabis  cum  Ajaee. 

VATF.    •  ^^ 


No.    CLXXX. 


A    PROPHESIE. 


July  29,  1623. 


July  29,  162.3,  is  a  conjunction  of  Saturne  and  Jupiter, 
whereof  shall  followe  great  alteracion  in  manneres  and  lives  of 
men  ;  also  captives,  and  exiles,  and  depopulacions,  the  sonne  uott 
willinge  to  out  live  his  father.  It  shall  cause  very  strange  fac- 
tions, and  the  deathe  of  a  great  lady  ;  great  misfortunes  to 
church  men,  and  the  deathe  of  a  childe  of  greate  hope,  and  noe 
good  to  one  I  muste  notte  name.  A  great  one  passinge  the  Alpes 
shal  be  snared  and  made  a  preye,  at  the  motion  whereof  Jer- 
manye  shall  abate  moche  of  the  same.  This  shalbe  a  ffatall  yeare 
to  suche  as  be  of  quallitie  and  authoritie ;  one  shalbe  poissoned, 
deathe  followinge  another  as  his  shaddowe.  A  prophet  will 
arise,  and  be  authure  of  some  newe  relligion  never  harde  of 
beiFore  :  great  allteracions  in  religion,  lawes,  empires,  and  king- 
domes  :  studyinges  of  negromancie. 

^  These  verses  are  in  the  handwriting  of  Jolin  Jackson,  Rector  of  Marske 
from  1G23  till  1661,  and  Master  of  the  Grammar  School,  Richmond,  from  1618 
till  1620.— M.  FitYER. 


ADDENDA. 


303 


No.  CLXXXL 

THE  PRIVY  COUNCIL  TO  ARCHBISHOP  HUTTON,  ABOUT  RICHARD 
STAPLETON  AND  HIS  WIFE,  PAPISTS,  WHOM  HE  HAD  CON- 
VERTED. 

5  May,  1597.«« 

After  our  liartie  commendacions  to  your  Lordship.     By  a 

lettre  tli received  from  your  Lordship  and  some  others  of 

that  Oounsell of  Aprill,  wee  do  understand  of  the  manner 

of  yo  .  .  .  .  Richard  Stapleton  and  his  wife  touching  the  oifcnces 
....  bin  charged,  and  of  the  good  successe  that  your  good  ende 
....  in  their  conversion  to  a  better  knowledg  of  their  duty  to  God 

wherin  as  wee  are  glad  for  the  parties  themselves,  whose 

trouble  in  this  m  .  .  .  .  turneth  to  their  benefitt ;  and  do  wish  that 
the  like  course  male  be  taken  ....  others  (so  farre  forth  as  your 
Lordship  shall  thinke  convenient),  that,  by  this  example  and  your 
temperate  carriage,  others  maie  also  be  reclaimed  unto  obedience. 
And  whereas  your  Lordship  expecteth  some  direccion  from  us 
touching  the  liberty  of  M'.  Stapleton  and  his  wife,  though  upon 
their  conformitie  it  was  in  your  owne  power  to  have  sett  them 
at  liberty  without  any  such  reference  unto  us,  yett  wee  like 
well  the  respect  of  us  that  your  Lordship  hath  shewed  in  making 
us  acquainted  with  your  proceedings  herein.  And  so,  wishing 
your  Lordship  to  take  such  order  for  their  liberty  as  you  thinke 
meete,  wee  bidd  you  hartely  farewell.  From  the  Court  at  White- 
hall, the  5'"  of  May,  1597. 

Your  Lordship's  very  loving  frendes, 

W.  BuBGHLEY.  Essex.  C  Howard. 

Gr.  HuNSDON.  R.  Northampton.       T.  Buckehurst. 

W.  Knollys.  Ro.  Cecyll. 

(From  the  Appendix  to  Dr.  Ducarcll's  Memoir,  there  stated  to  be  from 
tlic  Original.) 


^^  Of  the  papers  here  printed  under  the  head  of  Addenda,  some  were  omitted 
in  tlicir  places  in  the  preceding  pages,  and  the  rest  arc  given  from  transcripts 
of  the  originals  made  by  Mr.  Surtees  many  years  ago,  when  the  whole  collec- 
tion was  submitted  to  his  examination  by  the  late  John  Hutton,  Esq.  of  Marskc. 


304  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


LETTER  CLXXXII. 

THE  ARCHBISHOP  OF  YORK  TO  THE  BISHOP  OF  DURHAM,  UPON 
HIS  HAVING  GIVEN  THAT  ARCHBISHOP  INTELLIGENCE  OF 
THE    DEATH    OF    ARCHBISHOP    WHITGIFT. 

7  Mar  1603-4.«^ 

Salutem  in  Ohristo  !  I  think  my  self  very  much  beholden 
mito  your  Lordship  for  your  many  pitthie  kind  letters.  Your 
former  good  advertisements  towelling  the  late  Conference  and 
Commissioners,  &c.  did  pass  somewhat  slowlie  ;  but  your  woeful 
letter  of  the  lieavie  news  of  the  death  of  that  most  reverend 
and  worthy  Archbishop,  brought  to  me  on  Saturday  last,  came 
too,  too  soon,  the  Lord  God  knoweth.  Many  (no  doubt)  may, 
and  do  lament,  that  his  Majesty  hath  lost  a  faithful,  good  coun- 
sillor  ;  the  Church  a  great  and  notable  pillar  and  patron ;  and 
my  self  also  have  special  cause  to  sorrow  for  the  want  of  such  an 
auncient,  constant,  and  dear  friend.  It  is  a  singular  comfort  and 
incouragement  to  us  all,  that  his  Highness  vouchsafed  so  gra- 
ciouslie  to  visit  him  ;  wherein,  as  in  many  other  excellent 
vertues  and  things,  he  doth  imitate  his  late  dear  sister,  worthy 
Queen  Elizabeth,  who  did  alway  bear  and  shew  a  special  good 
affection  toward  him.  God  move  his  Majestyes  royal  and  re- 
ligious heart  (the  sooner  the  better)  to  make  special  choice  of 
one  to  succeed  him  ;  and  I  think  that  either  your  Lordship,  or 
my  Lord  of  Winchester,  is  like  to  have  'the  place  :  albeit  the 
dealing  with  the  Sec  (Secular)  Priests  against  the  Jesuits  in  his 
Majesty's  time  is  now  said  to  be  a  good  service,  and  that  it 
was  done  only  to  advance  his  Majesty"'s  title  against  the  Spanish 
faction. 

I  send  you  and  my  Lord  of  London  my  proxy,  jointly  and 
severally,  lest  your  Lordship  should  happen  to  be  sick,  &c.  I 
pray  you  help  Sir  John  Bennet  to  such  copies  or  things  as  are  to 
be  sent  hither,  and  must  be  confirmed  by  Convocation.  Thus,  be- 
seeching God  to  bless  your  Lordship  with  His  manifold  graces, 
and  tliat  I  may  never  see  you  more  (though  I  love  you  entyrely) 
but  that  you  may  be  placed  there,  to   God's  glory,    the  good  of 

fi'  From  Strype's  Wliitgift. 


ADDENDA.  305 

His  church,  and  your  own  contentment,  I  bid  you  most  hartily 
farewel.     From  Bishopthorp,  the  vii""  of  March,  1603. 

Your  Lordship's  very  assured  loving  friend  and  brother, 

Matth.  Ebor. 

To  the   Right  Reverend  Father,  my  very  good  Lord  and 
Brother,  the  Bishop  of  Duresme. 


LETTER  CLXXXIIL 

JOHN    BOWES    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

(780.) 

Kind  Knight  and  Ladye,  I  have  received  your  liberall  kindo- 
nes  latelie,  but  in  a  Httle  few  lines;  which,  though  writt  in  rime 
to  mee,  I  have  noe  reason  to  neglect  carelesslie  ;  and  therfor 
I  will  plead  mine  excuse,  even  against  my  profession.  I  am 
since  your  departure  turned  such  a  courtiour,  that,  fellow-like 
with  the  rest,  I  have  noe  leisure,  for  idlenes  and  overweaninge, 
to  respect  my  frends ;  and  yet  most  of  our  successes  at  Court 
may  well  warne  us  not  to  loose  them,  for  feare  wee  lack  them  in 
our  greatest  need.  Li  earnest  this  :  immediatlie  after  your  de- 
parture was  I  fallen  into  a  woorse  estate  then  I  was  in  the  begin- 
ninge,  procured,  as  my  surgion  sayd,  by  the  motion  of  the  coatch 
that  I  went  in  with  you  to  Ware ;  and  therfor  I  must  needs  fol- 
low him  to  Greenwich,  whither  the  Court  removed,  wher  I  re- 
mayned  with  him  all  the  time  of  his  stay  ther  :  and  ever  since 
doe  I  follow  and  remaine  neare  to  the  Court,  with  as  little  love 
to  that  life  as  I  have  to  my  Court  surgions ;  by  whom  I  have 
received  as  little  help  for  soe  large  expence  both  of  time,  money, 
and,  which  is  woorst,  of  my  content,  as  I  am  ashamed  to  thinke, 
much  more  to  tell  of  it.  I  doubt  I  shall  pay  dcarlie  for  soe 
much  witt  as  I  might  have  had  at  home  for  naught ;  that  is,  to 
trust  my  countryemen  better  then  a  Scott  :  but  [  follow  with  my 
frends  the  tide  of  this  time,  which  you  know  will  carye  us  into  the 
mayne,  either  to  swim  with  the  ship  ro3all,  or  sinke  with  the 
overladen  or  over-light  carvell.  I  thanke  God  I  have  verie  good 
health,  and  all  the  greefe  of  my  infirmitie  is  the  sad  slow  pace 
it  comes  on  in  curinge  :  yet,  if  it  were  sure  as  slow,  I  cared  not ; 

X 


306  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

but  they  cannot  assure  mee  either  of  perfect  cure,  or,  when  it  is 
cured,  of  perfect  continuance.  My  only  comfort  is,  that,  whether 
I  be  sick  or  sore,  well  or  ill,  He  that  best  knowes  what  is  fittest 
for  mee  provides  this  for  mee  for  my  best  ;  and  therin  will  I 
rest.  I  spoke  lately  with  William  Parkinson  :  he  tells  mee  that 
upon  your  command  the  proceedinge  of  the  sute  betwene  Savyle 
and  mee  was  stayed,  but  Bethell  is  at  execution ;  and,  if  Savyle 
be  not,  he  is  verye  neare.  If  you  either  goe  or  send  to  this  assise, 
you  may  be  ther  sure  to  find  them  ;  and  use  them  at  your  plea- 
sure, for  they  are  now  in  your  power  and  wilbe  submisse,  though 
they  both  braved  and  threatened  before,  and  put  mee  to  noe 
little  both  paines,  charge,  and  anger,  as  JVF.  Gibson  can  best  tell 
you.  They  deserved  noe  favour  at  my  hands,  and  as  little  at 
yours,  if  you  recount  the  cariage  of  it,  as  your  atturney  will 
unfold  it  to  you:  nevertheless,  as  you  please,  soe  dispose  of  it ;  and, 
for  that  xiiij''  that  I  received,  it  shalbe  readie  presentlie  upon  my 
returne  at  your  dispose  alsoe.  In  the  meantime  I  pray  you  think 
of  mee  as  I  deserve  ;  and  you  shall  find  mee,  as  your  loves  pur- 
chase. 

Yours,  and  both  yours,  and  ever  yours, 

John  Bowes. 


LETTER  CLXXXIV. 

SIR    WILLIAM    GEE    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    BUTTON. 
10  Sep,  1603.     (783.) 

Good  brother,  my  heartye  commendations  premised.  I  would 
have  bene  most  glad  to  have  scene  you  at  Yorke  last  assises 
weeke,  for  I  will  never  forget  your  former  love  and  kindnes,  con- 
firmed by  our  alliance ;  which  I  trust  shall  never  be  extinguished, 
but  continue  in  my  daughter  and  sole  child,  a  livelye  picture  of 
her  good  mother  your  sister,  whose  vertues  will  never  dye 
though  she  be  gone,  and  whose  remembraunce  shall  alwayes  be 
sweete  to  me.  Her  love  and  conversation  was  so  sweete  and 
comfortable,  that  wo  is  me  that  it  was  and  still  is  not  ;  but  you 
shall  find  that  I  will  regard  you  as  a  kind  brother,  and  my 
daughter  respect  you  as  her  best  and  loving  uncle.  I  sawe  your 
hand  in  a  warrant  concerning  a  commission   out  of  the  Starre 


ADDENDA. 


307 


Chamber  to  take  the  answers  of  M'.  Oathevieke  and  others' 
which  gave  me  just  occasion  to  write  these  few  lines,  and  to  en- 
treat yom-  lawfull  favour  and  paynes  for  Nixe,  whose  name  is 
used,  in  regard  that  he  hathe  a  very  honest  man  to  his  brother 
who  serves  my  brother  Sir  Thomas  Orompton,  and  was  in  your 
countrye  at  the  time  of  that  stirre.  His  name  is  Robert  Nixe, 
who  would  have  bene  there,  but  that  he  hath  bene  threatned  by 
some  of  them  to  the  endaungering  of  his  life  if  he  came  amongst 
them.  And  I  j^ray  you,  Sir,  to  let  me  know  which  of  the  de- 
fendants do  answer,  and  which  not.  Thus,  recommending  my 
love  unto  you,  and  my  kind  salutations  to  my  sister  your  wife, 
and  my  cosin  M'^^  Remington,  I  betake  you  to  the  protection 
of  the  Almightye.     Southburton,  10  of  September,  1603. 

Your  loving  brother, 

WiLLM.  Gee. 
(Sir  W™.  Gee  signs  the  letter  in  his  own  hand.     The  body  of  the  letter  is  in  the 
hand  of  his  secretary.      The  address  is  wanting.) 


No.  CLXXXV. 


MATT.    HUTTON  S    ACCOMPTS. 


OcToisER  1615.     (718.) 


Octob.  10,  1615. 
Imprimis,  to  my  selfe  . . . 
Item,  for  a  plaine  double  band 
Item,  for  two  paire  of  sockes 
Item,  for  one  paire  of  spurs 
Item,  for  one  paire  of  gloves 
Item,  to  Freshman's  feast 
Item,  for  a  Greeke  and  Latin  psalter 
Item,  for  a  Greeke  and  Latin  Testament 
Item,  for  a  knife 
Item,  for  a  paire  of  cuffes 
Item,  for  ribbin 
Item,  for  a  paper  booke    . . . 
Item,  for  a  hatt  and  bande 
Item,  for  lininge  another  hatt 
Item,  for  glassemendinge 


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CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


Commons  £6,  sizinge  £l   lis.  6d.    ... 

Item,  for  two  peere  of  shoes 

Item,  my  part  for  a  bed  ... 

Item,  my  part  for  4  double  casements 

Item,  for  puttinge  one  length  more  in  a  ruffe 

Item,  for  Aristoteles  his  Ethicks,  with  Magirus*" 

comment 
Item,  for  tuition 
Item,  to  my  sizer 
Chamber  rent 
Item,  for  3  quarters  of  blacke  stuffe  to  mend  my 

blacke  suite 
Item,  for  a  dozen  of  blacke  silke  buttons  and  three 

skeanes  of  silke 
Item,  for  three  nailes  of  blacke  Spainish  taiFetie 
Item,  for  a  quarter  of  an  ounce  of  fringed  lace  and 

a  skeane  of  silke 
Item,  for  suppers  on  fasting  nights 
Item,  for  ^lian  in  Greeke  and  Latin 
Item,  for  mendinge  my  blacke  suite 

Summa  totalis     £15  6s.  9d. 


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LETTER  CLXXXVI. 


THOMAS    BOWES    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 
4  May,  1623. 

Sir,  I  have  beene  at  Newcastle  and  at  Sir  Wm.  Wrey's,  but 
Sir  Wm.  Wrey  was  gone  into  Yorkshire,  I  stande  in  doubt 
I  shall  not  gitt  money  in  t}nne.  I  have  spoken  with  one  INF. 
Coale  ;  his  answere  is  delatorye.  He  seemes  as  thoughe  he  woulde 
buy  yt ;  but  he  hath  an  offer  of  Folansbye  by  my  nephew  Hil- 
tone,  that  lyes  nearer  to  Newcastle,  and  therefore  he  will  not 
part  with  his  money  untill  he  be  resolved  for  yt :  yet  he  hath 
promised  me  an  answere  this  weeke  by  our  carryers  that  goes  to 
Newcastle.  Upon  his  words  I  went  to  the  east  of  BishopiJricke 
to  have  spoken  with  my  nephew  John  Hilton,  but  I  missed  of 


ADDENDA.  309 

him  ;  and  his  wife  tells  me  that  she  thinkes  yt  is  not  of  sale.  I 
shall  have  answere  from  John  Hilton  tomorrow,  as  I  expecte.  I 
have  written  to  Sir  Wm.  Wrey  by  this  bearer :  what  yt  will 
worke  with  him  I  know  not ;  but,  yf  he  please  to  doe  me  the  fa- 
vour he  may  doe,  I  shall  rest  ever  beholden  to  him.  If  he  returne 
me  any  answere,  call  for  yt  and  see  yt,  yf  you  please  ;  and,  howe- 
soever  he  please  to  doe,  I  will  not  cease  to  labor  to  procure  this 
money  at  some  hand,  and  therefore  I  staye  tomorrow  at  home  to 
heare  from  him.  I  have  ridden  downe  my  grasse  horses  in  this 
journey,  otherwise  I  would  have  come  over ;  but  I  must  needs 
ease  them  to-daye,  to  have  them  readye  upon  Tuesday,  Thus, 
commendinge  my  love  to  you,  I  rest 

Your  assured  lovinge  brother, 

Thomas  Bowes. 
Endorsed,— Thomas  Bowes,  May  4,  1623. 


LETTER  CLXXXVII. 

THOMAS    BOWES    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 
3  Jan.  1623-4. 

Sir,  I  praye  you  let  me  intreate  you  to  enter  bond  agayne  to 
my  cosin  Wycliffe  for  the  50^'  that  you  stand  bound  for  with  M^ 
Blackborne.  I  intreated  my  cosin  Wyclifte  to  put  in  my  name ; 
but  yt  seemes  his  sonne  hath  mistaken  yt,  for  my  cosin  Wycliffe 
haith  sent  his  sonne  and  a  bond  onelye  with  your  name  and 
John  Blackburn's.  I  have  intreated  M'.  Blackburn  to  stand 
bound  agayne,  and  he  is  come  to  our  house,  where  wee  expect 
the  bond ;  and,  when  he  hath  sealed  yt,  I  will  come  up  with  my 
cosin  Ascoughe  to  you.  Soe,  comendinge  my  love  to  you,  I 
rest 

Your  assured  lovinge  brother, 

Thomas  Bowes. 

Januarye  3^  1623. 


310  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 


LETTER  CLXXXVIII. 

THOMAS    BOWES    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 
31  Oct.  1624. 

Sir,  I  praye  you  be  pleased  either  to  send  one  to  Sir  Conyers 
Darcye  for  the  deed,  that  he  wilbe  pleased  to  bringe  it  to  you  to- 
morrow to  Bedall,  or  send  your  man  from  Bedall  for  yt  tomorrow  ; 
for  I  can  not  call  upon  Tuesday  with  any  conveniency  at  Horne- 
by,  beinge  to  speake  with  M^  Davill  that  morninge,  for  sooner  I 
can"'t  gett  to  him.  I  goe  this  night  to  Streatlam  for  my  sister's 
joyntur,  and  return  tomorrow,  and  soe  to  Yorke.  I  praye  you 
therefore  eyther  send  your  man  in  the  morninge  to  Sir  Conyers 
for  yt,  or  from  Bedall  for  yt.  Soe  in  hast  comendinge  my  love 
to  you  I  rest 

Your  assured  lovinge  brother, 

Thomas  Bowes. 
Oct.  3P'.— Endorsed  1624. 


LETTER  CLXXXIX. 

MATTHEW    HUTTON    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 
After  27  Mar.  1625. 

Sir,  My  duty  bindes  me  to  this  observance,  as  to  give  you  a 
weekely  accompt  of  our  parliamentary  proceedinges.  My  last  let- 
ters acquainted  you  with  such  passages  as  had  had  there  over- 
ture in  my  absence,  since- which  time  "  sic  se  res  liahetr  A  se- 
lect committee  of  12  spent  the  beginninge  of  this  weeke  (the 
House  in  the  mean  time  not  sitting)  in  examininge  all  the  phisi- 
tions  and  surgeons  that  attended  of  our  late  King  att  his  death, 
about  a  potion  which  was  given  by  the  Duke  of  Buckingham  to 
the  King,  and  a  plaister  applyed  by  his  directions ;  both  of  them 
being  contrary  to  the  general  directions  of  all  the  phisitions,  and 
absolutely  disliked  and  gainesaid  by  some,  by  name  D"".  Ramsey 
(who  since  his  examination  is  committed)  :  which  act  of  the  Duke 
was  judged,  first  by  the  judgement  of  the  12,  and  afterwards 
upon  report  to  the  House,  to  be  an  act  of  a  transcendent  presump- 


ADDENDA.  311 

tion,  and  of  a  dangerous  consequence  ;  and  so  resolved  to  be 
annexed  to  the  Duke''s  charge.  Montagu  is,  for  his  booke,  trans- 
mitted to  the  higher  House ;  and  his  booke  judged  to  be  contrary 
to  some  of  the  articles  maintained  by  our  Church.  The  Earle  of 
Bristow  was  sent  for,  as  was  supposed,  as  a  delinquent ;  but  must 
first  come  into  the  higher  House  as  a  Peere :  tis  'generally 
thought  the  King  will  be  his  accuser.  Ccetera  quis  nescit  ?  His 
Sonne,  this  morninge,  presented  our  House  with  a  petition  con- 
taininge  many  articles  against  the  Duke ;  and  those  of  such  con- 
sequence, that  it  is  probable  that  one  of  them  will  suffer.  I 
intend  (God  willinge)  to  put  in  my  bill  of  Thursday  next ;  I 
pray  God  send  itt  good  success.  Sir  John  Bennett  is  not  yet 
come  to  towne,  neyther  can  I  make  any  certainty  of  any  money. 
M^  Sotherne  is  content  that  we  shall  have  a  parley,  but  what  it 
will  produce  I  cannot  as  yett  imagine ;  I  am  advised  both  by  ISV. 
Justice  Hutton  and  others  to  buy  him  out,  though  we  pay  deer 
for  itt :  and  therefore,  good  Sir,  acquaint  my  unkles  with  the 
dangers,  that  they  may  be  motives  for  them  to  allow  of  our 
composition ;  for,  when  we  shall  have  both  Marbury  his  recog- 
nizance, and  these  two  statutes  in  our  owne  power  to  extend 
upon  the  estate,  we  need  not  doubt  but  that  all  subsequent  secu- 
rityes  will  be  glad  of  reasonable  composition.  And  thus,  with  an 
humble  tender  of  my  duty,  I  rest 

Your  obedient  Sonne, 

Matthew  Hutton. 

Fleet  Street,  att  the  signe  of  the  Ship,  neere  Temple  Barr. 
Endorsed, — Matt.  Hutton,  my  sonne. 


LETTER  CXC. 


THOMAS    BOWES    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 
20  May,  1625. 

Sir,  I  have  beene  diverse  wayes  to  have  gott  money,  but  as 
yet  I  cannot  finde  any  that  hath  money  or  will  finde  money : 
onelye  M^  Dawson  of  Newcastle  hath  ready  money,  but  he  hath 
gone  throw  with  M'.  Trolopp  for  his  land,  and  payes  him  this 


312  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

day  £1,900  ;  that  bargayne  was  once  gone  back,  but  they  are 
now  agreed.  I  know  M^  Robinson  wonkle  gladly  buy  some 
lande,  and  yett  I  cannot  gett  him  to  buy  myne  :  and  in  good 
fay  the  he  shall  have  yt  free  of  all  troubles,  by  God's  grace,  yf  he 
will  buy ;  and  he  shall  have  yt  leased,  yf  he  like,  for  21  yeares. 
I  have  sought  diverse  wayes,  and  yet  will  looke  for  more,  that  I 
may  satisfy  your  last  kindnes,  as  all  your  other,  with  what  con- 
veniency  T  can  ;  and  I  praye  you,  yf  he  have  any  occasion  to 
come  to  you,  that  you  will  speake  to  Williamson  of  Barton  to 
buy  parte  of  yt.  I  entreated  my  nephew  Dodsworth  to  speake 
with  him  in  that  kinde.  Thus,  commendinge  my  love  to  you, 
desirous  to  see  you  shortly,  I  rest 

Your  assured  lovinge  brother, 

Thomas  Bowes. 
Sti-eatlam,  the  20"'  May,  1625. 


LETTER  CXOI. 

MATTHEW    HUTTON    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 
23  Sep.  1G26. 

Sir,  M^  Sotherne  hath  falsifyed  his  trust,  and  this  morninge 
before  I  gott  to  towne  arrested  my  unckle  Thomas ;  who,  for  any 
thing  I  can  gather  from  him,  is  content  to  undergoe  the  ex- 
treamity  of  the  law,  and  that  out  of  willfulnes  rather  then  ne- 
cessity. He  intendeth,  yf  he  can  prevayl  with  the  Under-Sheriff, 
to  see  you  in  his  way  ;  in  which  respect  I  have  made  bold  humbly 
to  intreat  your  forbearance  of  any  further  engaging  yourselfe  untill 
all  such  to  whom  any  preceding  incumbrances  do  a2:)pertaine  be 
called  in,  to  knowe  what  security  they  will  be  content  to  accept 
off,  that  so  we  may  know  the  uttermost  of  our  dangers  before  we 
engage  ourselves  any  further.  I  intend  this  night  to  know  Sir 
Talbot  his  intention,  and  presently  after  you  shall  partake  the 
same.  Thus  cravinge  pardon  for  my  boldness,  humbly  cravinge 
your  blessing  for  Your  dutifull  sonne 

Matthew  Hutton. 
Rich.  23'"  7''^  1626. 

To  his  lovinge  father,  S""  Timothy  Hutton,  K'.,  att  Popleton, 
be  these  del.     The  bearer  is  satisfFyed. 

(Seal,  Hutton,  Darcy.) 


ADDENDA.  313 

LETTER  CXCII. 

THOMAS    BOWES    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

25  Sep.  1626. 

Sir,  ]Vr,  Sotherne  has  arrested  me  upon  the  first  statute,  heing 
600^'.  I  am  now  here  in  the  castle  at  Yorke,  and  came  hither 
yesterday ;  T  could  gitt  neyther  paper  nor  inke  untill  my  man 
came,  for  otherwise  I  had  written  to  you  yesterday.  I  think  I 
must  give  bond  for  my  true  imprisonment ;  and  therefore  I  have 
made  bolde  to  write  theese  to  you,  and  to  intreate  you  to  joyne 
with  me  for  security,  and  my  sonne  shall  give  you  what  honde 
you  please  to  keepe  you  harmeles  of  that  bonde,  I  came  upon  such 
a  sudden  that  I  am  unprovided  of  money ;  I.  praye  you  therefore 
that  you  will  be  pleased  to  lend  me  tenn  pounds  for  sixe  weeks,  and 
you  shall  then  have  yt  repayed.  I  have  not  as  yet  spoken  with 
M^  Blawithe  what  bond  he  will  require  :  but,  require  what  he 
will,  I  hope  you  are  persuaded  I  will  not  offer  to  doe  my  self  or 
frends  wrong  in  yt ;  yt  beinge  noe  way  beneficiall  to  me,  but 
hurtfull.  Thus,  comendinge  my  love  to  you  and  the  Ladye  Hut- 
ton,  I  rest 

Your  assured  lovinge  brother 

Thomas  Bowes. 

From  the  Castle  at  Yorke,  this  25"'  of  Sept.  1626. 


LETTER  CXCTIL 

THOMAS    MARBURIE    TO    • •. 

16  Nov.  1626. 

WoRTHiE  Sir,  I  have  sente  this  bearer  to  receve  the  rents  of 
Barforde  and  tenants  at  Staynton,  which  by  the  custom  of  the 
country  is  usuall  to  be  payde  upon  Mondaye  sevenight  after 
Martelraas  daye  ;  and  desyr  your  furtherance  that  yt  may  be  then 
payde,  as  alsoe  the  rente  you  are  to  paye,  which  I  woukle  willing- 
lye  have  forborne  untill  Whitsontyde  next,  at  your  desyr,  but  my 
occasions  are  suche  that  I  cannot  forbeare  yt  longer.    Herafter,  if 


814  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 

it  be  in  my  power,  you  shall  commantle  a  far  greater  curtesie  from 
me.      And  soe,  comendinge  my  love  unto  you,  will  ever  rest 

Your  loving  friende, 

Tho.  Marburie. 
Mai-burie,  16"'  of  Nov.  1626. 


LETTER  CXCIV. 

SIR    TALBOT    BOWES    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 
20  Jan.  1626-7. 

Maugh  !  I  perceyve  by  my  sister,  that,  though  sundrye  of  my 
supposed  freindes  be  lyke  doves  that  forsake  ruinous  houses,  yet 
yowe  contynue  still  the  same  yowe  alwayes  were  ;  our  declininge 
fortunes  have  made  no  alteration  in  your  affection.  I  have  now 
no  meanes  of  requitall  of  any  your  least  favours,  but  onelye  to 
gyve  youe  thankes  for  all  togyther.  If  I  shoulde  enter  into  par- 
ticulars, I  know  not  where  to  beginne ;  but  that  which  is  in  pre- 
sent use  is  freshest  in  memorye  :  and  therefore,  first,  I  thank 
you  for  your  tabacco  sent  to  my  wyf ;  for  I  owe  as  much  thankes 
as  she,  bycause  I  participate  with  her  in  the  takying  of  yt.  I 
cannot  be  unmyndefull  to  gyve  you  thankes  for  your  sonne 
Phillip's  companye  with  us,  for  he  gave  us  a  sermon  wherein  we 
receyved  muche  comfort  and  great  cause  of  rejoycinge.  In  good 
fayth,  I  am  verye  glad  to  see  his  good  proofs ;  and,  the  rather, 
bycause  I  doubte  not  but  yt  will  gyve  you  an  extraordinarye  con- 
tentment. I  have  had  a  great  desyre  to  come  to  see  you  ;  and  it 
is  not  distance  of  place,  nor  unseasonableness  of  weather,  or  yet 
wayes,  that  coulde  keepe  me  from  you :  but  my  brother's  misfortune 
makes  me  afrayd  to  fall  into  the  same  danger,  and  so  I  hope  you 
will  take  yt.  How  thinges  stand  between  Richard  Fletcher  and 
us,  my  sister  hath  related  to  you.  I  intend  the  next  weeke  to  wryte 
to  him,  and  what  answere  he  gyves  me  you  shall  heare  so  soon  as 
I  can.  In  the  mean  tyme  I  will  saye  noe  more  but  hast,  hast ;  lap- 
pinge  up  in  sylence  what  I  cannot  expresse  in  wordes.  And  among 
my  manye  afflictions,  next  after  my  spirituall  comfort,  this  is 
my  last  consolation,  that  you  do  still  accept  me  into  your  good 


ADDENDA.  315 

opinion ;  whiche  I  will  ever  seeke  to  preserve,  that  I  maye  be  still 

reputed  Your  brother-in-law  and  true  love, 

Talbot  Bowes. 
Streatlam,  the  29""  of  January e,  1626. 

To  the  Ryght  Worshippfull  my  verie  lovinge  brother, 
Sir  Tymothye  Hutton,  Knight,  gyve  these. 


LETTER  CXCV. 

MATT.    HUTTON    [tO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON,    HIS    FATHEr]. 
9>>"  2,  1627. 

Sir,  I  thanke  God  I  am  safely  arrived  att  Marske,  and  left 
my  wyfe  (as  wee  thinke  and  hope)  past  all  danger ;  for  the  9"*  day 
was  past  ere  I  left  her,  and  they  att  the  height.  I  intend  to  goe 
to  Littleburne  to  her  of  Tuesday,  in  hope  to  bringe  her  home 
(with  the  help  of  the  coach)  the  latter  end  of  that  weeke :  yf  she 
be  not  able  to  ride,  then  I  must  leave  her.  And  immediately  after 
Martinmas  day  I  will  hasten  to  Popletonto  observe  your  directions, 
and  follow  the  advice  of  counsell  in  takinge  security  for  such 
further  engagementes  as  we  shall  engage  our  selves  for  my 
unckles.  And  thus,  with  the  tender  of  my  duty  to  your  selfe,  and 
my  service  to  my  Lady  and  M"^.  Weekes,  I  rest 

Your  dutifull  sonne, 

Matth.  Hutton.  . 

Marske,  2*'  9'«"',  1627. 

LETTER  CXCVL 

SIR    TALBOT    BOWES    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON. 

18  Nov.  1627. 

Sir,  I  was  muche  comforted  and  refreshed  with  hope  that,  by 
your  good  meanes  and  your  Sonne's,  my  brother  should  have  had 
present  delyverye  from  his  long  and  tedious  imprisonment :  but  I 
perceyve  yt  is  God's  will  yet  to  trye  me  further  how  I  can  beare 
his  hand ;  for  of  late  I  receyved  a  letter  from  my  nephew  Mat- 
thew, wherein  he  desyred  that  with  patience  his  jorney  to  London 


316  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

for  that  occasion  might  be  deferred  till  Candlemas  terme,  in  re- 
spect both  of  his  owne  weaknes  and  his  wyf 's  dangerous  sicknes, 
whom  to  leave  so  soone  in  suche  a  case  woulde  be  to  her  a  great 
discomfort  and  discouragement.  I  returned  him  answere,  that 
God  forbyd  I  shoulde  intreate  him  to  anythinge  that  was  eyther 
an  impayringe  of  his  owne  health  or  a  discomfort  to  his  wyfe  ;  and, 
in  good  fayth,  I  then  writ  truely  and  ingeniouslye  as  I  thought : 
but  since  I  hear  that  his  wyf  is  pretylye  well  recovered,  and  I 
hope  he  himselfe  may  undertake  suche  a  jorney  without  danger ; 
whiche  yf  yt  may  be,  then  I  woulde  intreate  your  furtherance 
thereunto.  It  is  true  that  my  brother's  imprisonment  is  greevous 
unto  me,  in  respect  he  is  my  brother ;  and  yt  is  augmented  by 
this,  that  yt  is  generally  apprehended  to  be  for  my  cause.  I 
have  no  freinde  in  the  world  whom  I  dare  intreate  in  so  great  a 
busines  as  his  deliverye  but  your  self  alone  ;  and  yet  I  am  not  so 
thirstye  to  compasse  myne  owne  desyre,  nor  so  respectlesse  of  the 
wellfare  of  yourself  and  your  posterytye,  as  to  intreate  you  to 
anythinge  unlesse  you  first  see  yourself  freed  from  feare  of  future 
danger.  But,  yf  that  may  be  done,  then  myne  earnest  desyre  is 
for  exj^edition  in  the  busines ;  for  I  perceyve  delayes  wilbe  a 
great  discomfort  to  my  brother,  and  in  that  respect  too  grevous 
to  my  self.  I  will  saye  no  more,  but  the  experience  of  your 
former  love  hath  made  me  adventure  upon  this  request ;  and,  yf 
there  be  any  cause  of  my  presence  to  make  securytye,  upon 
notice  thereof  I  will  not  fayle  to  come  to  Yorke :  and  in  the 
mean  tyme  thinke  this  of  me,  I  beseeche  you,  that  I  will  never 
forget  what  you  have  done  for 

Your  distressed  brother-in-lawe  and  love, 

Talbot  Bowes. 

Streatlam,  the  IS'*"  of  November,  1627. 


LETTER  CXCVII. 

MATTHEW    HUTTON    TO    SIR    TIMOTHY    HUTTON,    HIS    FATHER. 

6  Feb.  1627-8. 

Sir,  Tis  now  certainly  agreed  that  there  shall  be  a  parliament, 
and  to  begin  upon  the   17^''  of  Mai'ch.     Good  Sir,  sollicite  the 


ADDENDA.  317 

towne  that  wee  may  contiuew  our  places,  that  I  may  endeavour 
the  prosecution  of  that  course  which  I  formerly  intended  as  the 
onely  meanes  we  have  to  attaine  our  ease  and  comfort.  Yf  mv 
cosin  Christopher  Wandesford  be  not  off  the  House,  I  fear  we 
shall  not  eftect  our  desires ;  and  therefore,  yf  S^  Talbot  will  not 
be  perswaded  to  desist,  I  pray  you  lett  my  cosin  have  the  place 
rather  then  myselfe.  I  was  in  hope  to  have  gott  out  of  towne 
this  weeke,  but  I  fear  I  shall  not ;  tor  some  of  the  gentlemen 
with  whom  I  am  to  treat  be  out  of  towne,  and  I  must  stay  there 
returne.  I  have  placed  my  brother  Thomas  with  M\  Farmer : 
the  indentures  are  not  yet  sealed,  so  as  I  cannot  send  you  the 
conditions.  My  brother  Phillip  prosecutes  his  suit,  but  I  much 
fear  the  success  will  not  answear  his  paines.  The  20'',  as  dew 
upon  your  accompt,  we  must  take  order  to  pay  ;  but  we  hope  to 
gett  my  order  from  the  Barons  of  the  Exchequer  to  stay  the 
seisure  for  the  60''  till  there  come  a  charge  demonstratinge  the 
particulars,  which  they  thinke  will  be  ad  Gr^cas  calendas.  And 
thus,  with  the  tender  of  my  duty  to  your  selfe,  and  my  service 
to  my  Ladye  (whose  freindes  are  all  well),  I  rest 

Your  dutifull  sonne, 

Matth.  Hutton. 
London,  6«"  Feb.  1627. 

I  am  summoned  by  the  bell  to  doe  the  last  offices  of  a  friend 
to  M*^.  Christopher  Brooke,  ^ 


LETTER  CXCVIII. 

ANNE,    WIFE    OF    THOMAS    BOWES,    TO    MATTHEW    HUTTON. 

1629. 

Good  Nephew,  Let  me  intreat  you  to  looke  amongst  your  writ- 
ings for  the  articles  that  was  last  agreed  upon  betwixt  Sir  Gorge 
Bowes  and  mi  husband,  for  I  think  you  have  them  ;  for,  if  you 
cannot  helpe  me  to  them,  I  knowe  not  what  to  doe  :  for  Sir  Gorge 
Bowes  wil  not  pay  the  rent  charg  which  was  due  at  Martinmas 
last,  but  still  puts  me  of  that  there  is  some  reckening  betwixt  his 
unckell  and^him,  which  I  knowe  not  how  to  answer  till  I  se  the 


'  T-^ 


318  '  CORRESPONDENCE,   ETC. 

articles  :  for,  if  there  be  anything  in  them  unperformd,  so  it  is  ; 
for,  since  the  time  those  was  maid,  I  am  sure  we  neither  bought 
nor  tooke  any  thing  of  him.  Good  Sir,  for  God  sake  perrues  the 
articles,  and,  as  you  find  them,  let  me  have  your  best  adviss  what 
to  doe,  for  I  would  be  verie  loth  to  doe  Sir  Gorge  any  wrong ; 
and  yet  mi  owne  necesseties  presethe  me  so,  that,  if  it  be  due,  I 
would  have  it.  There  is  tow-and-fortie  shillings  more  which  Sir 
Gorge  should  have  paid  me  mor  than  a  year  sine,  but  I  canot 
get  one  peny  from  him.  The  rent  charg  was  assined  me  to  pay 
for  that  ground  I  hav  of  Will  Dowethwat  at  Barforth,  and  it 
much  greves  me  that  I  should  be  soe  ill  a  tenant  as  not  to  paye 
my  rent  when  it  is  due ;  for  I  only  desird  that  I  might  hav  that 
rent  charg  assind  me  to  discharg  that  rent  at  Barforth,  thinkin 
it  would  alwaies  hav  bene  surly  payd  at  such  times  as  it  was 
due  :  but  he  stil  delaies,  and  forceth  me  to  wrong  you  for  your 
rent.  Thus,  hoping  you  will  excuse  me  at  this  time,  promising 
hereafter  to  be  a  better  tanant,  I  rest  with  mi  true  and  due 
respect  to  you  and  all  yours,  desiring  still  to  remain 

Your  faithfull  loving  aunt  to  her  pore, 

Anne  Bowes. 
No  direction. 

Endorsed, — Ann  Bowes,  1629.  • 


LETTER  CXCIX. 

THOMAS    BOWES    TO    MATTHEW    HUTTON. 

27  June,  16.30. 

Sir,  Upon  perusall  of  your  counsell  opinion,  I  finde  that  he 
insists  much  upon  a  deede  made  from  Sir  George  Bowes  to  you 
of  the  castle,  mannor,  and  lordship  of  Streatlam,  anno  1629. 
Sir  George  Bowes  att  that  time  hadd  nothing  to  doe  with  the 
castle  or  mannor,  but  I  shall  not  dispute  eyther  his  right  or  ours 
at  a  distance  :  onely  give  me  leave  to  acquainte  you,  that,  unlesse 
you  will  be  pleased  to  come  over  accordinge  to  your  agrement 
and  mine,  the  tenants  will  drive  your  tenants''  goods  ;  which  I 
should  be  loath  should  be  done  untill  wee  had  a  fuller  under- 
standinge  of  the  busines. 


ADDENDA.  319 

My  cozen  Cleburne  went  this  morninge  to  Thornton  from 
hence  :  she  expected  to  have  mett  you  here ;  but  fayhnge,  she 
desired  me  to  acquaint  you,  that  you  will  heare  of  her  eyther  att 
Cillerby  or  there.  Be  assured  none  is  more  unwilhnge  that  any 
trouble  should  fall  out  betwixt  you  and  my  brother  then  your 
aifectionate  cozen, 

Thomas  Bowes. 

June  27"',  1630. 

For  his  kinde  cozen  Matliew  Hutton,  Esq.  these. 


LETTER  CO. 


THOMAS    TOTHALL,    RECTOR    OF    ROMALDKIRK,    TO    MATTHEW 
HUTTON,    ESQ. 

18  May,  1632. 

Sir,  My  love  premised.    Thoughe  longe,  yett  I  have  not  beene 

negligent  of  your  last  desyres  ;  this  inclosed  note  will  witnesse 

with  mee  I  have  plowed  with  the  heffars.     You  may  enquire, 

but   thus   it  haith   beene   lett   formerly.      Thus  at  this  present 

it  is  lett.     The  note  will  intimate  what  my  freind  thinks  dear, 

what  cheape  ;    but    this  he  holdes  the  utmost  rate.     In  haste, 

with  my  best  respect  remembered,  I  rest 

Yours,  ever  to  be  commanded, 

Tho.  Tothall. 
Rombaldkirk,  May  18,  1632. 

In  your  wisdom  I  thinke  you  will  not  buy  pigg  in  poake.  If 
you  resolve  to  see  it,  soe  farr  honour  the  parson  as  to  take  the 
parsonage  for  your  bowse.     I  should  much  rejoyce  to  see  you. 

Vale.   T.  T. 

To  the  Right  Worshipfullhis  worthy  kjmde  friend,  Mr.  Mathew 
Hutton,  att  Richmond,  dd. 

A  particuler  of  Rombaldkirke, — The  Earl  of  Exeter,  patron. 
The  parson  is  lord  of  the  manor  ;  keeps  court  leet  and  court 
baron,  and  hath  divers  copieholders  belonginge  to  the  same. 

Glebe  almost  fowerscore  acres. 

The  whole  profitts  better  worth  then  cc''  per  annum. 


320  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC 

The  towiies,  grainges,  and  hamletts. 

Rombaldkirke,  whereof  the  most  are  tenements  by  copie  to  M' . 
Tothall :  onely  Mr.  Huddleston  hath  three  farmes,  40s.  per  annum 
rent  ;  the  Earle  of  Exeter  other  3,  405.  more.  The  parson's 
copieholds  about  20  markes  per  annum  ;  he  hath  also  a  piece  in 
Lartington,  5s.  per  annum.  Lartington  lordship,  Mr.  Applebie's. 
Then  Heray,  Brisco,  Naby.  Codderston  :  half  Mr.  Huddleston's, 
thother  the  Earl  of  Devonshire  ;  one  hamlett  called  Hinder- 
thwart,  Mr.  Huddleston's ;  Thwaits,  where  Mr.  H's  house  is  ; 
Baldersdale,  containing  many  small  fixrmes,  most  Mr.  H's,  save 
some  pertaining  to  the  Lord  Evers.  Then  Mickleton,  Lonton, 
Lune,  with  the  chase :  all  these  Sir  Talbott  Bowes'.  Then  a  vale 
called  Holdwicke  ;  the  one  halfe  the  Lord  Howard's,  thother 
halfe  Sir  Talbott  Bowes'. 


LETTER  COL 


THOMAS    BOWES    TO    MATTHEW    HUTTON. 
5  June,  1633. 

Sir,  I  have  but  relation  of  Sir  George  Bowes'  busines,  con- 
cernynge  which,  as  he  says,  is  this :  he  hath  payed,  as  he  reports, 
1200^'  of  the  money,  and  had  the  rest  there  readye  to  paye  ;  of 
which  summe  my  nephew  Thomas  Delavale  brought  700^'  from  his 
sister-in-lawe,  with  direction  from  her  to  bringe  it  againe  ;  for. 
Sir  George  Bowes  not  havinge  credite  to  procure  the  whole 
summe,  he  and  his  ladye  went  to  Seaton,  and  dealt  there  with 
his  sister  Barbarye  for  700"  mitil  Pentecost,  and  that  she  shoulde 
have  securitye  out  of  Bradley  to  have  her  money  repayed  then. 
After  this  he  writt  agayne  to  his  sister-in-law  not  to  fayle  him 
at  the  tyme,  for  that  she  shoulde  have  her  money  returned  agayne ; 
whereupon  she  sent  the  money  with  her  brother,  my  nephew 
Thomas  Delavale,  and  I  thinke  the  whole  summe  was  tendred  : 
but,  M^  Eurye  having  some  speach  with  Mr.  Delavale,  yt  was 
perceived  that  the  700^'  must  not  be  payed  :  whereupon  the  Lady 
Eurye  broke  off,  and  woulde  doe  nothinge  without  all  her  money. 
M'.  Delavale  was  laboured  both  by  Tobye  and  John  Ewbanke 
to  lend  yt  untill  Pentecost,  and  they  would  then  repaye ;  but  he 
would  not  goo  from  her  direction.     Sir  George  did  promise  se- 


ADDENDA.  321 

ciiritye  out  of  the  land ;  and,  when  the  deed  came  to  be  seene,  yt  is 
sayde  that  land  was  to  passe  in  Sir  George  Bowes'  Sonne's  name. 
Soe  all  is  wronge  there.  John  Ewbanke  hath  an  estate,  as  yt  is 
said,  of  Cleatlam,  and  haith  his  goodes  there  ;  and  Sir  George 
Bowes  is  glad  to  take  some  part  of  yt  of  him,  and  the  house.  He 
is  now  at  Newcastle;  and  yt  seemes  he  thinkes  his  money  will 
never  have  an  end,  for  he  is  making  matches  with  the  lordes  of 
horse-courses,  and,  as  we  heare,  hath  made  2  matches,  the  one 
for  40^',  thother  for  1 00^' ;  soe  that  wee  feare  he  will  make  an  end 
of  all  soone  :  and  yt  is  given  out  that  they  intend  to  goe  and  live 
at  London  at  Michaelmas,  and  live  there  upon  the  interest  of  their 
money.  I  heare  the  Ladye  Eurye  is  cuttinge  down  such  wood 
as  there  is  there,  and  Sir  George  Bowes  sent  to  forbid  them ;  but 
this  forbiddinge  will  take  noe  place  :  so  that  wee  see  noe  good  to 
be  doone  for  him,  yf  he  cannot  gett  yt  by  lawe. 

In  good  fayth,  I  could  not  tell  you  any  thinge  touchinge  my 
brother  Warcop's  performance  with  you,  ueyther  knew  I  any 
thinge  of  his  abilitye ;  and  seldom  do  I  see  him. 

Yo  write  that  yo  have  sent  me  the  bill  of  charges  touchinge 
the  judgment  to  Christ.  Peacock.  I  asked  your  man  yf  he  had 
any  other  writinge  to  me  than  your  lettre,  and  his  answer  ys  that 
he  hath  none  :  soe  that  I  have  see  noe  such  note.  Your  tenant 
Parmely  had  a  cowe  driven  by  baylies.  As  for  my  contempt, 
when  1  was  at  York,  I  caused  the  court  to  be  sought,  and  noe 
such  thinge  is  there  to  be  found  against  me  ;  and  the  truth  is,  I 
never  had  a  lettre  served  upon  me  wherbye  suche  contempts  should 
accrue  :  so  that  I  thinke  yo  may  have  a  very  good  amendes  of  the 
bailyes  ;  for,  yf  it  had  bene  soe  that  I  had  beene  in  contempt,  they 
must  take  my  owne  goods  for  it,  and  not  an  other's.  I  shall  dis- 
burse none  to  drawe  your  fine,  but  both  I  and  my  sonne  will  per- 
form what  is  ryght  to  be  doone  yf  the  fine  be  accordinge  to  Sir 
George  Bowes'  deed  for  the  demaine.  Thus  in  hast  I  have  written 
yo  an  answer  to  all  your  enquiries,  soe  well  as  I  can  ;  but  the 
truth  is,  wee  of  Streatlam  are  mere  strangers  to  Sir  George 
Bowes'  businesses.    And  soe,  commendinge  my  love  to  yo,  I  rest 

Your  assured  lovinge  uncle, 

Thomas  Bowes. 
June  the  5"',  1633. 

To  the   Right  Worshipful   uiy  assured  lovinge   nephew, 
Mathew  Hutton,  Esq.,  at  Maske,  theese  be  del. 


822  CORRESPONDENCE,    ETC. 


No.    OCIII. 

MEMORANDA    BY    MATTHEW    HUTTON    AND    SIR    TIMOTHY,    HIS 

FATHER. 

27  Aug.  1644. 

Endorsed, — My  son  Warwick's  release  of  500''  behinde  of  his 
portion,  yf  his  daughter  Elizabeth  and  son  Mathew  both  dye, 
which  they  are  since. 

"  In  case  those  my  two  children  live  not,  &c. 

"  Phil.  Warwick." 

27  Aug.  1644. 
Cliburne  Hall. 

This  respect  of  mine  to  my  father  is  in  acknowledgment  of  the 
great  blessinge  I  had  in  my  most  virtuous  pious  wife  (who  is 
with  God)  his  daughter. 

My  Bond  to  my  brother  Burton,  6  Jan.  1623,  Giles  Burton 
of  Scotton,  Gent.  Timothie  Hutton. 

1636,  21  Jan.,  from  Yorke.  Tho.  Dawson  sayeth,  "  This 
day  I  have  hade  sum  conference  with  this  bearer,  Thomas 
Hawksley,  who  is  faither  to  my  coosin  Tobie  Hutton  his  wife  ; 
hopes  Tobie  may  be  put  in  some  settelld  way  to  maintain  him- 
selfe."     From  Yorke. 


INDEX    OF    PERSONS. 


AivsLEY.  Thomas,  138,  139. 
Alcock,  Thomas,  39. 
Aklbrough,  William,  231,  232,  248. 
Alderson,  Anthony,  212,  213. 
Aldred,  Mr.,  109. 
Allen,  W.,  56. 

Allenson,  Robert,  229,  247.      y 
^     Alured,  Ben.,  217,  222,  223.  'j^^.ct:../!^. 
Anguse,  the  Erie  of,  141. 
Apleton,  Henry,  222. 
Applebie,  Mr.,  320. 
Armstrong,  Simo,  139. 
Arrundell,  Henrye  Earle  of,  269. 
Arrundell,  James,  194. 
Ascough,  my  Cosin,  309. 
Ask,  Hugo  de,  8. 
Atye,  Mr.,  85. 
Aubrey,  Dr.  68,  92. 


15. 


Backhouse,  Robert,  263. 

Baclughe,  the  Lord  of,  141. 

Bainbrige,  Wydow,  273. 

Bancroft,  Dr.,  117. 

Banks,  Robert,  47. 

Barloe,  Dr.,  163. 

Barnes,  Johannes,  03,  84. 

Barnes,  Richard,  Bishop  of  Durham,  20, 

83. 
Baro,  Peter,  23. 
Barret,  Dominus,  293. 
Bath  and  Wells,  the  Bishop  of,  41. 
Beamont,  Mr.,  16,  53. 
Eellasis,  Sir  William,  141. 
Bellassyse,  William,  7. 
Bellingshame,  Sir  Henrv,  263. 
Benet,  Sir  John,  84,  163,  169,  195,  235, 

287,  304,311. 
Benett,  Mrs.  INlargarett,  249. 
Beningham,  Richard,  109. 
Bennet,  Ann,  daughter  of  Sir  John,  45, 

47. 
Berrie,  Christopher,  253. 
Bethell,  306. 
Bindlos,  Robert,  263. 
Binge,  Mr.  Dr.,  149. 


Bilson,  Dr.,  90,  117. 

Blackbourne,  Archbishop,  40, 

Blackburne,  my  Cosen,  197. 

Blackburn,  John,  206,  207,  216,  309. 

Bland,  the  post  maister,  202. 

Blawithe,  Mr.,  313. 

Boast,  the  seminary  priest,  92,  96. 

Borne,  Raphe,  138,  139. 

Bowes,  Anne,  wife  of  Thomas,  307,  30B. 
Jr-e.  Bowes,  or  Bowles,  Edward,  4.5,  47. 

Bowes,  Elizabeth,  33, 187,  251. 

Bowes,  Frances,  12,  31. 

Bowes,  George,  35,  277,  278. 

Bowes,  George  Wanley,  39. 

Bowes,  John,  251,305,  306. 

Bowes,  Ladie  Jane,  189. 

Bowes,  Mr.,  156,200. 

Bowes,  Richard,  181. 

Bowes,  Robert,  277, 278. 

Bowes,  Sir  George,  277,  278,  317,  318, 
321. 

Bowes,  Sir  Martin,  31. 

Bowes,  Sir  Talbot,  251,  314,  315,   316, 
317,  320. 

Bowes,  Sir  William,  118,  125,  127. 

Bowes,  Thomas,  181,  251,  308,  309,  310, 
311,  312,313,318,319,  320. 

Bowes,  William,  277,  278. 
Brathwait,  Richard,  257,  258. 
Bretham,  Roger  de,  8. 
Bridges,  JMrs.,  283. 
Bristol,  the  Bishop  of,  41. 
Bristowe,  the  Earle  of,  314. 
Brook,  JNIr.  Christopher,  317. 
Brook,  Mr.  George,  101,  149,  153. 
Buckhurst,  T.,  303. 
Buckingham,  the  Duke  of,  310. 
Bugg,  Anthony,  182. 
Bulwer,  Mr.,  260. 
Bukk,  John,  66. 
Bunnv,  Edni.,  66. 

Burglilev,  Lord  Ireasurer,  21,  27,  28,  57, 
58,  77,  78,  85,  105,  106,  107,  108, 
109,  110,  111,  112,  113,  114,  116, 
113,  119,  121,  122,  126,  133,  135, 
162,  303. 
Burgoine,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  Ro- 
ger, 47 ,  49. 
Burton,  Giles,  322. 

Y  2 


324 


INDEX    OF    PERSONS. 


C. 


Cfesar,  Dr.,  105. 
Calveiley,  Anne,  180,  181. 
Calverley,  Thomas,  181. 
Calverley,  John,  31. 
Calversey,  Sir  John,  Knt.,  251. 
Canterbury,  Thomas,  Archbishop  of,  41. 
Carew,  Adrian,  master  of  VVarton  school, 

208,210. 
CarJile,  the  Lord  Bishop  of,  181. 
Carr  (Ker),  Sir  Robert,  Lord  of  Cesford, 

120,  122,  123,   124,   126,  127,   128, 

129,   130,  131,   132,    133,   134,  135, 

136,  137,  138,291. 
Gary,  Sir  Robert,  121,  135. 
Castil,  the  Duke  of,  195. 
Cathericke,  Mr.,  307. 
Cecyll,  Sir  Rob.,  v.  Cranbourne. 
Cecyll,  Sir  William,  15. 
Cheke,  IMr.,  72. 
Chester,  the  Bishop  of,  163. 
Chichester,  the  Bishop  of,  41. 
Cleburne,  Anne,  249,  250,  252. 
Cleburne,  Edmund,  236,  263. 
Cleburne,  Elizabeth,  250,  319. 
Clemens  V.,  102. 
Clifforde,  the  Lady  Anne,  283. 
Clopton,  William,  97,  194,  196. 
Cole,  John,  113,  114,  116. 
Comberland,  the  Countess  of,  284. 
Corny n,  Symon,  95. 
Constable,  Joseph,  115. 
Constable,  Sir  Henry,  115. 
Constable,  Sir  Phyllyp,  179. 
Copleys,  the  family  of,  12. 
Cottle,  Matthew,  262. 
Cowley,  Alice,  150. 
Cradoc'k,  Joseph,  262. 
Cranbourne,  Robert  Cecyll,  Lord,  16,  17, 

24,  25,28,78,79,86,  87,93,  94,  101, 

114,   115,   118,  119,   135,    144,    149, 

303. 
Crawthorne,  Mr.,  171. 
Crofte,  John,  263. 
Croft,  John,  263. 
Crompton,  Sir  T.,  307. 
Cumberland,  the  Earl  of,  120,  157. 
Curwen,  Mr.,  263. 


D. 


Dale,  Dr.  Valentine,  19,  62,  63,  77. 
Darbie,  the  La.,  the  elder,  283. 
Darbie,  the  yonge  Countes  of,  285. 
Darcey,  W.,  162. 
Darcie,  Conyers,  253- 
Darcie,  Lord,  157,  165,  166. 
Darcie,  Sir  Conyers,  249,  310. 


Darcy,     Elizabeth,    daughter    of   James 

Lord,  39. 
Darwin,  Dr.,  40. 
Dauney,  John,  250. 
Davill.  Wyllim,  197. 
Davison,  Dand,  138,  139. 
Davyll,  Christopher,  181. 
Dawney,  Sir  John,  140. 
Dawson,  Miles,  180,  181. 
Dawson,  Robert,  180,234. 
Dawson,  Thos.,  47,  258,  259,  322. 
Day,  Mr.,  88. 
Delavale,  Thomas,  320. 
Dethicke,  Sir  Gilbert,  9,  10. 
Dethick,  Henrie,  95,  181,  277. 
Devonshire,  Earl  of,  320. 
Digbie,  the  La.,  285. 
Dodsworth,  Frances,  250. 
Dodsworth,  John,  39,  246. 
Douglas,  Simon,  216. 
Dowethwat,  William,  318. 
Drewrye,  Dr.,  68. 
Drurye,  Mrs.,  284. 
Ducarel,  Dr.,  11. 
Duckett,  Sir  Francis,  2C7,  208. 
Duresme,   Tobie,    Lord   Bishop  of,   139, 

305. 
Durham,  Richard,  Lord  Bishop  of,  41, 

269. 
Dyche,  or  Dyke,   Dorothy,   daughter  of 

William,  39. 


E. 


Earnshaw,  Josh.,  47. 

Eedes,  Dr.,  90. 

Flffingham,  the  La,  283. 

Egerton,  Lord,  110.  111. 

Ellow,  John,  197,  208,  228,  230. 

Ellwood,  Will.,  139. 

Ellwood,  Will.,  the  younger,  139. 

Ely,  Bishop  of,  4] . 

Emerson,  John,  273. 

Emerson,  Raphe,  of  the  Springe  Howse, 

273. 
Emersonn,  W^illiam,  273. 
Essex,  the  Earl  of,   108,    122,   123,   124, 

135,  156,  157,303. 
Etherington,  Tho.  Cooke,  alias,  246. 
Eubank,  J^leanor,  wife  of  Samson,  12. 
Ewbanke,  John.  320,  321. 
Ewbanke,  Tobye,  320. 
Ewre,  Lord,  165,  320,  321. 
Ewre,  Mr.  320. 

Exeter,  the  Bisliop  of,  41,  175. 
Exeter,  Earl  of,  319. 


Fairefax,  Sir  Thomas,  140,  164,  165. 


INDEX    OF    PERSONS. 


825 


Fairfax,    Dorothy,    daughter   of    Fertiin- 

ando,  Viscount,  46,  47. 
Fairfax,  Ferdinand,  49. 
Fairfax,  Ferdinando,  Lord,  261. 
Fanshawe,  or  Fincham,  Beatrix,   12,  17, 

21. 
Fanshaw,  or  Fincham,  Sir  The.  47. 
Fant,  Mr.,  78. 
Farmer,  l\Ir.,  317. 
Feildinjre,  Israeli,  216. 
Fell,  William,  263. 
Fenwick,  Mr.  William,  137,  139. 
Feme,  Mr.,  112,  113,  115,  165,  166. 
Feme,  Sir  John,  196. 
Fetherston,  Nich.,  273. 
Fletcher,  Richard,  314. 
Fletcher,  William,  W.  263. 
Floyd,   George,   Bishop  of  Manne,    1.51, 

152. 
Foorde,  Mr.  Phyllip,  180. 
Fort,  Mr.  Robert,  225,  228. 
Foster,  Mr.,  235. 
Fotheigill,  Willielmiis,  83. 
Freebarne,  Alex.,  123,  124,  125,  126. 
Frevill,  Mr.,  274. 
Frier,  John,  273. 
Frisell,   Robert,    Lord  of   Overton,   138, 

139. 
Fuller,  Dr.,  9,  27. 
Fuller,  Richard,  263, 
Fulmesby,  Catharine,  12,  16,  31. 


Gaite,  John,  Esquier,  272. 

Gargrave,  Sir  Tho.,  57. 

Gaskinge,  Sir  William,  206. 

Gats,  Mr.,  109. 

Gawdie,  Justice,  157. 

Gears,  Mr.,  217. 

Gee,  Mr.,  123. 

Gee,  my  Daughter,  180. 

Gee,    Sir  William,  31,    179,    180,    196, 

306,  307. 
Geslinge,  James,  216. 
Gibson,  John,   LL.U.,    18,   19,  62,  63, 

64,  65,  66,  67,  68,  69,  70,  83. 
Gibson,  Mr.,  306. 
Gilbert,  Sir,  234. 

Gilbert,  Dr.  John,  Bishop  of  Sarum,  42. 
Goodrich,  Thomas,  Bishop  of  Fly,  16. 
Goodwin,  \\  illiain,  152. 
Goodwyn,  Dr.,  152,  182,  196. 
Grosthead,    Robert,    Bishop  of   Lincoln, 

12. 
Gra\e,  Mr.,  130. 
Gregorie,  Hutton,  222,  253. 
Grenefield,  W  illiam,  102. 
Grigg,  Dr.,  40. 
Guv,  Robin,  217. 


H. 


Hadwen,  Robert,  senior,  263. 

Hadwen,  Roberte,  junior,  263. 

Haggett,  John,  216. 

Hales,  Christopher,  138. 

Hales,  Mr.  165. 

Hall,  J.,  134,  175. 

Hall,  Raphe,  138,  139,  277. 

Hall,  Rob,  138,  181,  187,  195. 

Hall,  Thomas,  183. 

Hall,  William,  138,  139. 

Hammond,  Mr.,  18. 

Hamonde,  D.,  20. 

Harison,  Hughe,  150. 

Harison,  William,  273. 

Harrington,  Sir  John,  28. 

Hastinges,  Mrs.  Katharine, 285. 

Hastings,  Sir  Edward,  76. 

Hastings,  the  La.  Dorothie,284. 

Hauksby,  Thomas,  258,  322. 

Hereford,  the  Bishop  of,  41. 

Herring.  Bishop,  41. 

Hethfeild,  William,  217. 

Hewyttson,  Thomas,  179,  181,  182,  183, 
187,  193. 

Hilton,  John,  308,  309. 

Hopper,  iMr.,  229. 

Hotham,  John,  109,  197. 

Hotun,  Richard  de,  7. 

Howard,  C,  303. 

Howarde,  Henry  Lord,  98,  99,  320. 

Howlegate,  William,  180. 

Howseman,  Robert,  263. 

Howseman,  Thomas,  263. 

Huddleston,  Mr.,  320. 

Hume,  Lord,  125. 

Humphrey,  Dr.,  20. 

Hunsdon,  G.,  135,  144,303. 

Hunsdon,  H.  Carie,  Lord,  90. 

Huntingdon,  Henry  Hastings,  Karl  of, 
20,  23,  27,  59,  60,  63,  64,  75,  106, 
114,  157,  166. 

Huntingdon,  Lady,  56,71. 

Hutchinson,  Richard,  253. 

Hutchinson,  William,  222. 

Hutton,  Anne,  31,  39,  251. 

Hutton,  Archbishop,  Sir  Timothy,  Mat- 
thew, passim. 

Hutton,  liarbara,  38,  250. 

Hutton,  Barbara,  wife  of  Matthew,  262. 

Hutton,  Charles,  46. 

Hutton,  Cicely,  daughter  of  William,  7. 

Hutton,  Dorothea,  uxor  Edwardi,  49. 

Hutton,  Dorothy,  43,  46. 

Hutton,  Kdraund,  11,  12,  13. 

Hutton,  Edwardus,  49. 

Hutt  n,  Elizabeth,  12,  31,  35,  39,   45, 

249. 
Hutton,  Frances,  39,  179. 
Hutton,  Grace,  12. 
Hutton,  Henrietta,  39. 


326 


INDEX    OF    PERSONS. 


Hutton,  Isabel,  daughter  of  Robert,  7. 

Hutton,  James,  8. 

Hutton,  Jane,  12. 

Hutton,  Joan,  12. 

Hutton,  John,  39,  ter. 

Hutton,  John,  15,  39. 

Hutton,  John,   39,  237,  239,  242,  250, 

252   313. 
Hutton,  Lady,  34,  249,  313,  315. 
Hutton,  Leonard,  12. 
Hutton,  Luke,  13. 
Hutton,  Mark,  31. 
Hutton,  Marmaduke,  13. 
Hutton,  Mary,  38,43. 
Hutton,  Mr.  Justice,  251. 
Hutton,   Matthew,  307,  310,   311,   312, 

315,  316,317,  318,  320, 252. 321,322. 
Hutton,  Mrs.,  136,  188,  193,  259. 
Hutton,  Mr.  Sergeant,  182,  197. 
Hutton,  Olivia,  39. 
Hutton,   Phyilyp,   222,  223,  224,    226, 

230,  231, 232, 233, 250,252,  314,  317. 
Hutton,  Richard,  46,  249. 
Hutton,  Richard,  45,  46,  179,  249. 
Hutton,  Robert,  12,  13. 
Hutton,  Robert,  D.U.,  11,  12,  13,   180, 

181. 
Hutton,  Samuel,  12,  13,  230,235,  249. 
Hutton,  Sir  Richard,  7. 
Hutton,  Sir  Thomas,  45,  46,  216. 
Hutton,  Stephen,  31. 
Hutton,  Timothy,  225,  226,  228,  229. 
Hutton,  Timotliy,  249,  250. 
Hutton,  Thomas,  7,   31,  180,  192,222, 

250,252,317. 
Hutton,  Thomas,  D.D.,  8. 
Hutton,  Thomas  de,  7. 
Hutton,  Thomasine,  31. 
Hutton,  Tobie,  258,  322. 
Hutton,  Ursula,  46. 

Hylliard,  Sir  Christopher,  109,    110,  140. 
Hyltone,  Thomas,  181. 

I. 
Irigleby,  Sampson,  85. 

J. 

Jackson,  160, 

Jackson,  John,    Rector   of   Marske,   34, 

235,  250,  253,  259,  260. 
James,  Dr.,  90. 
James,  King  of  England,  24,  133,  134, 

168, 169, 170. 
Johnson,  Grace,  229. 
Jones,  Walter,  17,  259. 
Jopling,  John,  262. 
Juell,  D.  Joanne?,  80. 


K. 


Kapp,  Mr.,  234. 
Kempe,  John,  103. 


Kery,  Tiio.,  269. 
Kildare,  the  Countess  of,  283. 
Knevett,  the  La.,  282. 
KnoUys,  W.,  135,  144,  303. 
Kynnemounte,  George,  250. 
Kyttson,  William,  218. 


Labberan,  Mr.,  208. 

Lascelles,  Thomas,  138. 

Latimer,  Lord,  160. 

Lawson,  Mr.,  145,  160. 

Lee,  Edmund,  103. 

Leicester,  the  Earl  of,  16,  53,  71. 

Leighe,  Mr.  Hen.,  141,  142,  144. 

Le  Neve,  Mr.,  9. 

Lichfield   and   Coventry,   the  Bishop  of, 

41. 
Lillie,  Dr.,  90. 
Limerick,  Lord,  165,  166. 
Lincoln,  the  Bishop  of,  41. 
London,  the  Bishop  of,  304. 
Loyd,  Rev.  Mr.,  40. 
Lucas,  James,  263. 
Lutman,  John,  43. 
Lutman,  Mrs.  Mary,  43. 
Lyndley,  Chris.,  66. 
Lyndley,  Henrie,  276. 
Lyndley,  Edmund,  68,  69,  83. 
Lyster,  Thomas,  38. 

M. 

Mallory,  Sir  William,  140. 
Manners,  Mr.  Roger,  97,  101. 
Marbury,  Thomas,  311,  313,  314. 
Mathew,  Dr.  Tobie,    Bishop  of  Duiham, 

27,  28,  33,  80,  81,  88,  91,  92,  93,  95, 

96,  136,  137,  188,  234. 
Mauleverer,  Beatrice,  250. 
Mauleverer,  JNlr.,  216,  247. 
Mayer,  Mr.,  123,  125. 
Maylom,  Mr.,  235. 
May,  Mr.  John,  181. 
Melton,  William,  102. 
Merser,  Mr.,  234. 
Mersk,  Henry  de,  8. 
ftlersk,  Robert  de,  8. 
ftliddelton,  Robert,  263. 
Miers,  George,  273. 
Millin,  Rob.,  263. 
Mooe,  Raphe,  138,  139. 
Moore,  Bartho.,  233. 
Mudd,  Henrye,  221. 
Mudd,  Thomas,  234,  251. 
INIulgrave,  the  Earl  of,  46,  47. 
JMullenax,  Edmund,  194. 
Musgra\e,  Sir  Phillip,  263. 
Myller,  Mr.  Christopher,  161. 
Moyser,  Mr.,  197. 


INDEX    OF    PERSONS. 


327 


N. 


Natteris,  Richd.,  277. 

Nevill,  Alex.,  103. 

Nevill,  George,  103. 

Nevill,  Mrs.  Mary,  285. 

Nevyl,  Lady  Margaret,  92,  96,  97,  98, 

100,  101. 
Nichols,  John,  263. 
Nickolson,  Thomas,  260,  263. 
Nixe,  Robert,  307. 
Northfolke,  Thomas,  Duke  of,  267. 
North,  R.,  144. 
Northampton,  R.,  303. 
Northumberland,  the  Earl  of,  61,  62,  85, 

86,  267. 
Notingham,  the  Eail  of,  144. 


O. 

Osborne,  Mr.,  78. 
Overall,  Dr.,  163. 
Oxford,  the  Bishop  of,  41. 


Pagett,  the  La.,  283. 

Palmer,  William,  57,  66. 

Parker,  Archbishop,  18. 

Parkinson,  William,  306. 

Parmentor,  Mr.  Thomas,  181. 

Peacock,  Christopher,  321. 

Pellham,  Mr.,  109. 

Pepper,  Christopher,  253. 

Pepper,  John,  234. 

Pepper,  Mr.,  160,  193. 

Pepper,  Sir  Cuthbert,  179,  182,  183. 

Pilkington,  Alee,  273. 

Pilkington,  Grace,  daughter  of  Leonard, 

12. 
Philips,  Mr.  John,  160. 
Philip,  Thomas,  253. 
Philipps,  Arthure,  191. 
Phillips,  Mr.,  208,  235,  242. 
Phillipps,  Thomas,  the  elder,  250. 
Phillips,  Francs,  162,  193. 
Potter,  Archbishop,  41. 
Price,  John,  Rector  of  Marske,  205,  206. 
Price,  William,  250. 
Pringle,  David,  138,  139. 
Puckering,  Sir  John,  88,   89. 
Puresye,  Mr.,  106. 


Queen    Elizabeth,    15,    16,    23,  24,   76, 
140,  144,  161,304. 


R. 


Radcliff,  Mrs.  Mary,  284. 

Ramsden,  Mr.,  57. 

Ramsey,  Dr.,  310. 

Ranson,  William,  181. 

Rawlye,  Sir  Walter,  291. 

Rawson,  Mr.,  171. 

Redhead,  Robert,  137,  138. 

Redman,  Mr.,  88,  90. 

Redwayne,  John,  138. 

Remington,  Richard,  Archdeacon  of  the 

East  Riding,   31,  78,   181,   196,  197, 

268,269,307. 
Remingtone,  my  Daughter,  181. 
Richardson,  Dr.,  15. 
Richemond,  Roaldus  de,  8. 
Robinson,  George,  273,  311,  312. 
Robinson,  John,  45,  47. 
Robinson,  Ralph,  204. 
Robson,  John,  138,  139. 
Robson,  Robert,  139. 
Rochester,  the  Bishop  of,  41. 
Rodes,  Milicent,  daughter   of  Edmund 

47. 
Rokebie,  Dr.,  166. 
Rothy,  Mis.,  259. 
Roxbrough,  the  Lord  of,  168. 
Rutherford,  Richard,  138,  139. 
Rutland,  John  Manners,  Earl  of,  74,  75. 
Ruttland,  E.  Manners,  Earl  of,  74. 
Rygge,  Mr.,  236,  237.  ^.^.-.^J^yl 


yKif^ 


Sands,  Edwin,  89,  103,  104. 

Sandys,  Edwin,  Archbishop  of  York    18 
19,  73,  102. 

Savyle,  306. 

Scroope,  Lord,  141,  142. 

Scroope,  the  La.,  282. 

Scudamore,  Thomas,  268. 

Sere,  Mr.,  207. 

Sheffeld,  the  Lord,  175,  195. 

Sheffield,   Ursula,    daughter   of   Sir  Ed- 
mund, 46,  47. 

Sherrard,  Mr.  Danyell,  208,  245,  250. 

Shrewsbury,   the    Earl  of,   33,   35,    157 
158,  160. 

Sicilay,  217. 

Sidney,  Sir  Robert,  113. 

Skidmore,  the  La.,  285. 

Skippwithe,  Mr.,  109. 

Slater,  George,  32,  63,  65,  67,  68,  69 

Slater,  Mr.  D.,  77. 

Slater,  Richard,  217. 

Slayter,  Peeter,  234. 

Slingesbie,  Francis,  274. 

Smytheson,  Anne,  181. 

Smyth,  John,  207. 

Somerset,  Charles  Duke  of,  4(>. 


828 


INDEX    OF    PERSONS. 


Sotherne,  Mr.,  311,  313. 

Southampton,  the  Earle  of,  157. 

Souihwell,  the  La.  Eliza,  232. 

Stanhope,  Sir  Edward,  164,  165. 

Stanhope,  Sir  John,  78,  148. 

Stanhopp,  Mr.,  106. 

Stanley,  the  La.  Frances,  282. 

Stapletoa,  Frances,  daughter  of  Bryan,  39. 

Stapleton,  Richard,  303. 

Still,  D.,  20. 

Stillington,  William,  195. 

Stirkai,  Th.,  171. 

Stobbes,  Nich.,  273. 

Stobbes,  Raph,  273. 

Stobbes,  William,  273. 

Stott,  George,  217. 

Strafford,  the  Earls  of,  7. 

Strafford,  Thomas  Earl  of,  7. 

Stranguidg,  Mrs.,  283. 

Stringer,    Anne,   daughter   of   Nicholas, 

47. 
Susan,  228,  229. 
Swale,  Richard,  34. 
Symsson,  208. 


T. 


Talbot,  Jane,  33,  35. 

Tate,  William,  138,  139. 

Taylor,  Francis,  47. 

Terrick,  Ur.  Richard,  Bishop  of  Peter- 
burgh,  42. 

Tharkeld,  iMychaell,  61. 

Thistlethwait,  R.,  41. 

Thomas,  Valentine,  127. 

Thompson,  Mr.,  234. 

Thoresby,  Mr.,  12,  13,  30. 

Thornes,  Mrs.,  235. 

Thorold,  Lady,  181. 

Thorpe,  Mary,  daughter  of  Richard,  47. 

Thorsby,  Jhon,  103. 

Thynne,  Mrs.  Gresham,  284. 

Tireman,  Mr.,  235. 

Tochetts,  Mr.,  251. 

Torr,  Mr.  J.,  9. 

Tothall,  Thomas,  Rector  of  Romaldkirk, 
319.  320. 

Trolopp,  Mr.,  311. 

Tunstall,  James,  D.D.,  39. 

Tuxford,  the  Vycarof,  158. 


Vaughan,  Dr.,  Bishop  of  Chester,  88, 90, 

117,  150. 
Vavasor,  Cristofer,  61. 
Vavasor,  Mrs.  Anne,  282. 
Vere,  Sir  Frauncis,  113. 
Veie,  the  La.  Susan,  285. 


W. 

Walker,  Richard,  minister,  263. 

Walmesley,  Justice,  157. 

Walsingham,  Sir  Francis,  21,  28,  64,  65, 

66,  77. 
Walsingham,  the  family  of,   12. 
Wrtnley,  Andrew,  39. 
Wansford,    Christopher,   196,    197,   202, 

317. 
Warcop,  321. 
Ward,  John,  217. 
Warwick,  Sir  Philip,  38,  322, 
Warwick,  the  Countess  of,  284. 
Washington,  Laurence,  203. 
Waterhous,  Jonas,  191,  193. 
W^eddali,  Jane,  216. 
Weeks,  Mr.  John,  249,  315. 
Wentworth  family,  7. 
Wentworth,       Margaret,      daughter      of 

George,  7. 
Wentworth,  William,  7. 
Westmerland,  the  Earl  of,  92,   96,  97, 

267. 
Whaly,  Mr.,  153. 
Wharton,  Mrs.  Margaret,  284. 
Whincop,  Tho.  222,  226,  227,  230,  231, 

233. 
Whitgift,  Archbishop,  13,  16,  17,  20,  22, 

23,24,  71,  72,73,  87,  88,  104,    105, 

117,  118,  147,  199,304. 
Willams,  Robart,  206. 
Willis,  Dr.,  9. 
Willuglibie,  Lord,  126,    128,  129,  130, 

131,  132,  133,  134,  135,  138. 
Wilson,  Dr.,  20. 
Wilson,  Ra.,  263. 

Windebank,  Secretary,  145,  161,  170. 
Wirdiiam,    John,    176,    177,    188,    181, 

190. 
Wolley,  Sir  John,  93,  94. 
Wolsie,  Cardinall,  103. 
Woodall,  Mr.,  213,  217. 
Wood,  J.,  140. 
Worcester,  the  Bishop  of,  41. 
Worcestre,  the  Erie  of,   1 57. 
Worster,  the  Countes  of,  285. 
Wrey,  Sir  William,  308,  309. 
Wycliffe,  my  Cosin,  309. 


Yonge,  Richard,  138,  139. 
Yong,  Thomas,  273. 
Yorke,  Mr.  Deane  of,  217,  218,  235. 
Young,  Dr.  Thomas,  Archbishop  of  York, 
17,28. 

Z. 

Zouche,  Lord,  157. 
Zouch,  William,   102. 


INDEX    OF    PLACES,    &c. 


AiNHOE,  46,  47,  49. 
Aldbroughe,  247. 
A  Id  ford,  150. 
Alnewick,  137. 
Ashbie,  106, 
Awkeland,  180. 

B. 

Bainton,  the  Rectorie  of,  78. 

Bainton  upon  the  Wolds,  32. 

Barforde,  313,  318. 

Barneby,  32,  34,  235. 

Barton,  312. 

Barwick,  127,  128,  132,  134,  137. 

Bailey,  12. 

Bedall,  310. 

Bedford,  the  Archdeaconry  of,  7. 

Beelbie,  179. 

Bishop's  howse,  271. 

Bisshoppe  Burton,  76. 

Bishopsthorpe,  26,  122,  124,    159,   193, 

204,  234,  245,  305. 
Bisshopton,  126. 
Blackwell,  289,  270. 
Bosworth,  the  Rectory  of,  20. 
Boulton,  235. 
Boxvvorth,  15. 
Brackenholme,  179. 
Bradley,  320. 

Brampton,  the  Prebend  of,  7. 
Brazen  Nose  College,  46,  47. 
Broinesbury,  tiie  Prebend  of,    15. 
Burneshead,  258. 
Burneston,  231. 
Bushopsgayt,  200. 

Bushopsgayt,  the  Kynge's  head  at,  200. 
Busshupbrige,  207,  308. 
Buttervvic,  7. 
Byer's  Greene,  274. 


Cambridge,  the  University  of,  14,  15,28. 
Cambridge.  40,  163,233. 
Carlisle,  20,  142,  144. 
Cawood,  159,  181. 


Chelsea,  200,  201,  206,  208. 

Chester,  277. 

Christ's  College,  Cambridge,  40. 

Clare  Hall,  Cambridge,  40. 

Cleatlam,  321. 

Copley,  12. 

Cottam  Mundevell,  277. 

Craik,  274,  275,  276. 

Croft,  229. 

Croft  Bridge,  118,  137. 

Crovdon  Palace,  42. 

Cundall,  234. 

D. 

Darlington,  261,270. 
Darton,  45,  179,  180,  252. 
Dawley,  45. 
Deighton,  45,  47. 
Denton,  46,  47. 
Depewell,  274. 
Donkaster,  197,  198.  203. 
Dryffield,  45,  180,  181,  182. 


Ellingthorp,  232,  248. 
Ely,  15,  17,223. 
Ely,  the  Isle  of,  17. 
Embden,  156. 
Evenwood  Park,  277,  278. 


F. 

Feld  Lane,  the  Blue  Anchor  in,  London, 

226,  228,229. 
Ferriebrig,  197,203,204. 
Fleet,  201. 
Fletstret,   the    Cjrewhound    in,    London, 

200. 

G. 

Garnsey,  195. 
Gatesheade,  137. 
Goldsbrough,  7,  235. 
Grantham,  198,  203. 
Grenehill,  269. 


380 


INDEX    OF    PLACES,    ETC. 


H. 


Hagthorpe,  179. 

Hallikell,  231. 

Ilalwelestele,  269. 

Hampton  Court  Conference,  24,  28. 

Hangeast,  231. 

Healley,  194. 

Heaton,  179. 

Hemsley,  231. 

Hewl9n,  180. 

Hilton,  8. 

Highgate  Castle,  7. 

Hornby,  310. 

Houghton-le-Skerne,  13. 

Houghton-le-Spring,  12,  273. 

Howden,  271,  272,  273,  276,  277. 

Howdenshire,  272,  273. 

Howden,  the    Rlooteliall    or   Towlebothe 

in,  272. 
Hull,  Kingston  upon,  110,  119,  222. 
Huntingdon,  199,202. 
Hutton,  7,  8. 
Hutton  Hall,  7,  9. 
Hutton,  surname  of,  7,  8. 


M. 

Rlarragg,  207. 

ftlarwicke,  251. 

Marske,  35,  160,  162,  191,  192,  193, 
194,  196,205.206,207,208,210,222, 
228,  237,  250,  251,  259,  260,  261, 
263,315,  321. 

Midleham,  Bishop's,  274. 

Midrige,  270. 

Midiigeborne,  270. 

Midridge,  the  Manor  or  Grange  of,  270. 

Morton,  273. 

N. 

Netherspane  Briggs,  272. 
Newarke,  198,  203. 
Newcastle,  129,  311,  318,  320. 
New-water  Fishery,  269. 
Norham,  269. 
Norhamshire,  269. 
North  Newbald,  31. 
Nunburnholme,  180.  ■ 

O. 
Oxford,  V.  Brazen  Nose  College. 


Jarnsoy,  195. 

Jebbergate,  195. 

Jesus  College  in  Cambridge,  40. 


K, 

Kateren  Hall,  Cambridge,  163. 
Killam,  247. 
Killerbie,  270,  319. 
Kimbleborne,  270. 
Kirby  Hill  School,  40. 
Kirbie  super  Moram,  232. 
Knolton,  181. 


L. 


Lambeth  Chapel,  42. 

Lambeth  Church,  42. 

Lambeth  Palace,  41,  42. 

Lanchester,  277. 

Lartington,  320. 

Laxton,  272. 

Leake,  the  Rectorie  and  Parsonage  of, 

270. 
Leake,  the  Vicarage  of,  270. 
Lichfield,  19    . 

Lincoln,  the  Archdeaconry  of,  8. 
Lincoln  Cathedral,  7. 
London,  200,  226,  228,  229. 
London  Hospital,  42. 


P. 


Paul's  Cross,  London,  17,  54. 

Pedwell  Fishery,  269. 

Pembroke  Hall,  15,  17. 

Penrith,  7. 

Petworth,  43. 

Pontefract,  45,  119,  180. 

Powle's,  the  Deneiie  of,  163. 

Popleton,  Nether,  31,  45,  46,   47,  235, 

249,  312,  315. 
Priest  Hutton,  9,  11,  12,  14. 
Pudsey,  46,  47. 


Q. 


Quarrington,  271. 


R. 


Ranworth  Castell,  (Ravensworth,  County 

Durham.)  207. 
Reimesworth,  207. 
Redworth,  270. 
Riccall,  the  Prebend  of,  18. 
Richmond,  38,  191,  206,  217,  218,  246, 

250,  253,  262. 
Richmond  Church,  33. 
Richmondshire,  248. 
Ripon,  181. 
Rippon  School,  40. 
Royston,  199,  202. 
Rughford,  159. 


INDEX    OF    PLACES,    ETC. 


331 


Scolton,  322. 

Scroobie,  159,  198,203. 

Seaton,  320. 

Shawdforthe,  277. 

Sherborne,  the  Hospitall  of,  77. 

Sherif  Hutton,  119. 

Smalcald,  the  Assembly  at,  20,  60. 

Southburton,  320. 

Southwell,  32,  159. 

Spofforth,  40. 

Stamforth,  198,  202,  203. 

Stanhopp,  in  VVerdaile,  273. 

Staynton,  313. 

St.  George's,  Hanover  Square,  42. 

St.  Margaret's,  Westminster,  43. 

St.  Martin's  in  the  Fields,  the  church  of, 

(London,)  41. 
St.  Mary  Bishophill  the  elder,  (York,)  7. 
St.  Mary  le  Bow,  London,  41. 
St.  Olave's,  Jewry,  the  vicarage  of,  8. 
Storthwate,  179. 
Streatlam,  35,  187,  310,  312,  316,  318, 

321. 
Strensall,  the  Prebende,  153. 
Stylton,  198,  199,  202. 
Sutton-upon-Loundj  47. 
Swaledale,  194. 
Syningmyre,  270. 


Tadcaster,  197,  204. 

Thornton,  179,  319. 

Tine  Brigg,  139. 

Trinity  College,  Cambridge,  14,  26. 

Trowbridge,  the  Rectory  of,  40. 

Tu.xforth,  198,  203. 

Twedmouthsteyle,  269. 


U. 

Ulmbye,  179. 

Ulskelf,  the  Prebend  of,   13. 

Uxbridge,  45,  47. 

W. 

VValkington,  274,  275.  276. 

Waltham,  199,  202,  269. 

Ware,  199,  202. 

Warlingwarth,  213. 

Warton,  9,  11.    14,  21,  179,   180,   181, 

182,208,  210,  251,263. 
Wayde's  Mill,  202. 
Welehall,  275. 
Welley,  158. 
Welton,  274,  278. 
Wens-dale,  160. 
Wentworth  Woodhouse,  7. 
Westgate,  273. 
Westminster,  17,  200,  201. 
Westminster  Abbey,  16. 
Wetherby,  40. 
Wharram  Percye,  179. 
Wickham  Abbey,  7. 
Wilforde,  269. 

Winchester  School,  239,  242. 
Windsor,  41. 

Wiske  more  upon  Caperige,  270. 
Withham,  198,  203. 
Wolsingham,  271. 
Wood  ham,  179. 
Worcester,  18. 
Wystowe,  181. 


Yerefibrde  Fishery,  269. 

Y'ork,  306,  310,  313,  316,  321,  322. 

Y'ork  Castle,  119,  137,  138. 

York,  the  Deanery  of,  17. 

York,  the  Kidcote  at,  181. 


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ERRATA. 

For  "Ducarell,"  when  it  occurs  in  the  Notes,  &c.,  read >^  Ducarel." 

Page  35,  line  4  from  top,  for  "consilio,"  read  "concilio." 

Page  78,  the  Letter  No.  XXVII.  is  by  mistake  attributed  to  the  year  1590,  when  in 

reality  it  was  written  in  1600,  as  its  date  ad  Jinem  purports.     Consider  it  out  of 

its  place,  and  belonging  to  the  latter  year. 
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